Re: Suspend drains battery on IBM T42

Barkley Vowk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 01:02 +0000, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:
>> you may want to check out radeontool
>> http://www.init-main.com/radeontoolport.tar.gz .  Another common user
>> of power in suspended laptops seems to be USB not shutting down.  Good
>> luck with your troubles,

> Good way to check whether USB is the culprit is to use something like
> USB-powered reading light and suspend. On mine (Averatec 3150H) it stays
> on, even when machine seem to go to sleep. I don't have solution for
> this though...

Ok, the dpms patch got me to about 12 hours of life, if I used radeon 
tool to turn it all off, I get about 16 hours. Which is a *HUGE* 
improvement, and I'm very happy with that. My radeon chipset is still
  warm in suspend mode (I pulled the keyboard off and hooked a thermal 
probe up to it) I don't know if anyone else has noticed that.

However, I've got the USB problem listed above as well. I'd really like to 
solve that, I expect it would boost my suspend time up to APM times.

_______________________________________________
[email protected] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.