[ltp] When/where/what for low power consumption?

Ulrich Kuehn linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:21:19 +0100


On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:18 +0000, Florian Dorpmueller wrote:
> >>* A radeon patch for turning the GPU into D2 state when suspend to ram.
> >>That way it consumes only about 600 mW.
> >
> >That sounds interessting, tell me more. There did you find the patch ?
> 
> Presumable this is meant:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep
> 
> Florian
> 
> 

Yes, exactly, thanks for providing the link. However, interestingly my
model 2373-2GG is not listed there in the patch, although I remember
reporting success.

Is there any plan to include this patch in the mainline kernel?

Ulrich