[ltp] My war with T40 and ACPI drain

Michele Lamarca linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:04:54 +0100


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 18:28:30 +0100, Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it> wrote:
> Just to whom it may concern.
> 
> Same olde 2373-92G (T40 with 1400x1050 screen and Radeon 9000 M9).
> 
> To overcome the 2.6.10 ACPI drain I tried compiling 2.6.11-rc2 vanilla
> other than with the swsusp2 patch and substituting ibm_acpi.c version
> 0.08 in the kernel tree with the latest 0.10.
> 
> Sleep for 1 hour resulted in a drain of the ususal 4753 mW/h
> 
> :( :( :(

Why don't you try another patch? I've not tested yet, but look at
<http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/23/140>. First apply the latest -mm
patch.

Good luck,
Michele