playing with powertop on my netbook

I know that this via netbook does have issues with powermanagement and i want to digg deeper
to get some sort of power/instructions trace
so i have installed powertop

sudo apt-get install powertop
what is interesting C3 state (sleep) is buggy on this cpu (cache incoherent)
and i see that is really used , it should be disabled by bios but i know that bios is buggy too.

Powertop suggested this
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

so i have added it in /etc/rc.local
before the exit 0

List of via netbooks partners

seems there are some netbook distributors in romania

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/notebook/notebook.jsp


and the new cloud book looks way better
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10227034#Specifications

also i will try to add some macosx themes if the compiz will work
http://www.taimila.com/?q=node/11
seems that via released the open source driver for the integrated board
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/01/0023245