From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Power usage in S3 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:13:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20050228231322.GA1919@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050228141701.4dc95eec@orfeo.nikhef.nl> <422355D2.8040709@us.ibm.com> <200502282045.30429.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502282045.30429.stefandoesinger-RbZlAiThDcE@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=F6singer?= Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Vernon Mauery , Tim Dijkstra List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click