From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 16:34:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1364E16A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:34:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from m21.unixathome.org (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797C343D48 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:34:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [205.150.199.217]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0741C372; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m21.unixathome.org ([205.150.199.217]) by localhost (m21.unixathome.org [205.150.199.217]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12729-06; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:34:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [70.26.229.230]) by m21.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A85BFB0; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:34:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [10.55.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2B53D3B; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:34:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Barkley Vowk Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:34:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <434FA5CA.31658.856AD66D@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20051014101559.U937@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <1129300711.742.6.camel@RabbitsDen> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at unixathome.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suspend drains battery on IBM T42 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:34:21 -0000 On 14 Oct 2005 at 10:23, Barkley Vowk wrote: > 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. How it it you're measuring this time period? I'm guessing you're not standing there watching for the lights to fade out. > 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. Have you tried the suspend to disk? That's what Windows calls hibernation. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/