[ltp] power consumption in S3 ACPI

Daniel Jimenez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 14 Mar 2004 11:37:33 -0600


Roman Joost wrote:
> I got my T40 with an 2.6.4-rc2 working, but was wondering about the
> power consumption in S3 mode with ACPI. Compared to the APM sleep, it
> uses a lot of power and well, the lamp of the CD-Rom is still on. I
> guess, that the CD-Rom isn't asleep as the other parts in the laptop.
> After a night in S3 Mode, my battery has only a charge of 20 - 30%. The
> advantage is, that S3 puts the laptop pretty quick into sleep.
> 
> Somebody the same "problems"?


My problem is when I put the laptop to sleep it doesn't recover. Mouse 
and keyboard won't really respond. So I can't get any form of sleep at all.

I haven't been able to get suspened to swap working either...

*grumble*

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Daniel Jimenez <djimenez[at]pobox[dot]com>