[ltp] My war with T40 and ACPI drain

[Peter Frühberger]

Bob Alexander wrote:
> Peter Frühberger wrote:
> 
>> Bob Alexander wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Frühberger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Bob, try this link,
>>>> http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unatk/media/radeonstuff.tar.bz2
>>>> here I got it working with 2.6.11-rc2,
>>>> just read the info file, change the Power File to add your model and 
>>>> apply the patches in the given order.
>>>> If you want you can also apply swsusp2-2.1.5.15 for 2.6.11-rc2
>>>>
>>>> Good Luck
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Peter,
>>> (and of course all other friends giving me some hope and support).
>>>
>>> Let me understand better before I act.
>>>
>>> I currently have a 2.6.11-rc2 with ibm_acpi-0.10, swsusp2 
>>> 2.1.5.15(and a patch to this).
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly I shoud edit the 
>>> 05-radeonfb-Thinkpad-Power.patch file by REPLACING/OVERWRITING the 
>>> first .ident entry with proper values for my thinkpad (which I can 
>>> see also with the dmidecode command) and the corresponding .matches 
>>> entry.
>>>
>>> I will then apply the patches in order ... did I get it ? :)
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>> Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes this is the way to go, for example the entry for my R40 2722-B3G 
>> looks like that:
>>
>> +       {
>> +               .ident = "IBM ThinkPad R40 (2722-B3G)",
>> +               .matches = {
>> +                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "IBM"),
>> +                       DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "2722B3G"),
>> +               },
>> +       },
>>
>> just edit this entry to fit to your values.
>>
>> If you go into S3 mode you should see sth. like that:
>> radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): suspending to state: 3...
>> radeonfb: switching to D2 state...
>> radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): resuming from state: 3...
>> radeonfb: switching to D0 state...
>>
>> D2 state is the important thing.
>>
>> I did compile radeonfb (new version) directly into the kernel and my 
>> append lilo conf for 2.6.11-rc2 looks like that:
>>         append="video=radeonfb:1024x768-16@60 apm=off acpi=on 
>> pci=routeirq resume2=swap:/dev/hda5 acpi_sleep=s3_bios"
>>
>> good luck
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
> Peter,
> thank you for the ongoing support. Still no luck.
> 
> I added radeonfb in my /etc/modules since I could not see any messages 
> related to radeonfb in my logs.
> 
> I also added the same kern params in my GRUB menu.lst config (only diff 
> is video=radeonfb:1400x1050-24@60 for my screen).
> 
> Now that I have done:
> 
> a) During boot the screen stays black for quite a long time (I finally 
> see the last few lines of the console boot before GDM kicks in)
> 
> b) When I suspend I do not see the D2 state (see below)
> 
> c) The power drain is still in the 4.8W per hour :( :( :(
> 
> 
> Here is some data:
> 

I`ll send you a deb image which you could try to test...
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