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Re: wearcomp displays

>>>>> "Thad" ==   <> writes:

Thad> 50 or 60 columns works fine on the MicroOptical.  Did all my
Thad> e-mail during mid-October/November/December...

Sorry, "Short term memory is the first to go" I should have checked
the archives before posting.  

Have you tried SVGATextMode vs X?  

I find power consumption is much lower out of X, and if all I am doing
is filling the screen with an emacs window, it is not of much benifit
to be in X anyway.  

Looking back in the archive (see, I can learn) I see that you show
only about 1/2 watt/hr diff. when in X on the 486 lizzy.  But you also
say that you do not use the apm features (at that time).  Perhaps The
greater differance I am noticing with the Cell P166 is the result of
its "idle mode" a power saving mode that runs the chip at 2/8 cycles
on 6/8 cycles off when the speed is not needed.  I wonder if X is too
bussy to allow it to enter this mode durring text entry/reading as I
beleive it does out of X?  Don't know, but I see at least full
1watt/hr of differance, so, I stay out of X when not needed.  This
still may be a carry over from my audio-only bais as well.  

There is still a lot of time I leave the M1 off and operate in
emacspeak with audio output.  I find it comfortable and often more
condusive to the task at hand not to be using visual output - but that
is another topic...

Greg

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