From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Power usage in S3 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:34:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20050301233422.GF2062@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050228141701.4dc95eec@orfeo.nikhef.nl> <200502282045.30429.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> <20050228231322.GA1919@elf.ucw.cz> <200503012036.20047.stefandoesinger@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503012036.20047.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? > > > I thought it's in the list because it's mentioned in the video.txt file in the > kernel sources or better was mentioned namely before: > > (5) radeon systems, where X can soft-boot your video card. You'll need > patched X, and plain text console (no vesafb or radeonfb), see > http://www.doesi.gmxhome.de/linux/tm800s3/s3.html. I thought that was tm800 and tm803 is different machine.. video.txt updated. Thanks. > For proper device resume it needs the patch which splits up the resume > functions so devices are re-enabled after leaving the acpi sleep state. I've > sent it to len some tome ago, but I don't know if it's in the acpi > mainline. Len is slow at taking patches :-(. 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