Re: Never in C3

Fred Labrosse
2004-06-15T13:35:57Z

Karol Kozimor writes:
> Thus wrote Fred Labrosse:
> > I did read at some point that this was because of hotplug. I thus stopped
> > hotplug and, at that time, I did see my processor in C3 state. Hoever,
> > since then, I've never seen that again, and hotplug is not running.
>
> hotplug itself doesn't do any harm, though USB does.

That is right. At least this rings a bell.

> Possibly depending on
> your host controller, you can't have anything plugged in and you might have
> to reload the module (under 2.4) to have C3 working.

Well, I have no usb device plugged in, no usb module loaded (I just made
sure that no usb bits were in the kernel) and still no C3. What do you
mean by "you might have to reload the module"? Which module.

BTW, I run vanilla 2.6.6. on an ACER TM636.

TIA,

Fred