Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:14:46 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Subject: Re: Suspend drains battery on IBM T42 Message-ID: <200510121914.55110.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051012155949.G54439@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wednesday 12 October 2005 06:10 pm, Barkley Vowk wrote: > I just got a new T42 notebook, and everything works ok, except when > I drop the notebook into acpi sleep, it burns through the battery > in 8 hours or so. It would be nice if the notebook could suspend at > least overnight. I have the exact same problem on my Fujitsu P2110. Try this patch to acpi_video: http://am-productions.biz/docs/acpi_video_dpms.patch It helps (you'll probably get 10-12 hours now) as it will shutoff the video adapter, but I still have the power drain problem. I'm not sure what isn't powering down correctly since I've tried to suspend with all the power management tunables for max power saving. In my /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.do_power_nodriver="3" -- Anish Mistry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDTZjvxqA5ziudZT0RAo0IAJkB5ulec+pPX73wEJ7J0SBXqD5MSwCgk2rb SFMOPGUjTNUSCo9W3jqb+Rg= =Nk6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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