[ltp] acpi sleep vs apm sleep

[Andreas Kemnade]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:58:31 -0500
Brad Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com> wrote:

> I can get both to work but acpi sleep consumes much more power than apm
> sleep.
> 
> I don't have windows see if this is a linux problem or just the nature
> of acpi sleep ..
> 
> anybody know?
> 
I don't see a difference on my X31 when I do a radeontool light off before
echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep

So my theory is that the OS has more responsibility to power down things and
Linux does not do that always properly.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade