[ltp] ACPI drain and VGA drivers - any progress?

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:49:53 +0100


On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:43:22 +0100, Tomek Jarzynka wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> it's been a while since I played around with all the patches
> I could find, still, my laptop sucks ~700mWh in sleep mode :(
> Are there any new solutions or patches published? Has anyone
> evaluated this matter?

This will be enough for more than 2 days in suspend to RAM with a 40 Wh
battery. The original issue was about ThinkPads sucking more than 3
Watts during suspend, and 700 mW was considered OK. If this is too much
for you, try swsusp2 instead.

Regards,
Tino