Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:03:30 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa@cbs.dk> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Power-drain during suspend? Message-ID: <20060210230330.6907A45041@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:06:15 %2B0100." <43ED0047.4030207@cbs.dk>
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> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:06:15 +0100 > From: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa@cbs.dk> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Kevin Oberman wrote: > > >>>>> hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=[1|2|3] > > I have been changing the setting of the above to '3' - and done a bit of > "testing" with suspend/resume. > The result is not much different from before, the R51 still "eats" the > battery after 6-7 hours of suspend :-/ > I have tried to suspend without X.org running to test if this had any > effect, but there is no clear difference - and I end up with pusslement. > > Any suggestions about what else I could try out ? Are you using radeontool and turning off both the DAC and the display (assuming you have a Radeon video chip)? It saves a quite a bit of power. Other than that, I'm not sure what to suggest. Sorry, but maybe someone else has a better idea. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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