[ltp] Time spent in C3 cpu state ?

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:27:56 -0400


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 18:47 +0200, Konstantin Filtschew wrote:

> to remove all USB devices and then your system will maybe use the C3
> Modus. On my System T40, I have to remove the drivers for USB too to get
> in C3.
> It is a known issue.

I don't actually have to remove the drivers here - but unplugging the
actual devices is a necessity.  I use a USB mouse routinely (trackpoint
is great, but not for drawing) and unplugging the mouse allows the
processor to go to the C3 state.

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