[ltp] vbestate works, but...

[Niel Lambrechts]

Hi guys,

First off, Mario, well done on discovering the vbestate solution, Ive been 
waiting on ATI since January 2004 and contacted them countless times!

That said, could someone please confirm if this results in a higher power 
consumption after resuming from either S3/S4?
My battery will only last 1-1.5 hrs if I resume using vbestate instead of 
3-3.5 hrs, I dont see anything strange using top/ps so it must be BIOS 
controlled? Maybe some VESA power-saving mode setting gets lost when 
suspending?

Also, maybe we can contact ATI to inform them that this type of utility 
makes a difference, perhaps it could open their eyes to the root cause?

For those who care, I use the vbestate resume solution on a Thinkpad 
R50P/FireGL T2 128, SuSE 9.2, ACPI, and can resume from S3 (suspend to RAM) 
or S4 (suspend to disk) using Xorg.

Regards,
Niel