Re: Power usage in S3

[Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> > I finally got the power issues resolved on my Thinkpad T40 too.  It can
> > only sleep in S3 for about 2 days too.  But, with a new high-capacity
> > battery, it could probably go for 4 days.  My wife's Thinkpad R40p can go
> > for about a week, but it has a new battery and the FireGL T2 graphics card
> > rather than the Radeon 7500.  And it didn't need the radeon power stuff --
> > it only needed acpi_sleep=s3_bios.  But, I am sure we can do better than
> > 2-2.5 days... *But*, I am very pleased that we have come this far.  For
> > almost a year, I was using swsusp2 every night going home from work.  As
> > nice as that is, it still is too slow for an overnight sleep.
> My Acer Travelmate 803 looses ~20% battery power in 12 hours in S3 with Linux. 
> Under Windows it dropped from 50% to 5% withhin 5h. Sounds strange, but at 
> least the Linux value can be reproduced. I can't test with Windows again 
> because it had to go to satisfy my disk space needs :-)

Acer TM 803 is not yet in the video.txt list. What hacks do you need?

								Pavel
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