[ltp] T400 does not enter C4/C6 sleep state with USB devices connected

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
> I spent lots of hours trying to figure out why my T400 would not enter
> C4 and C6 sleep states.
> 
> Here are my findings for anyone which is interested:
> - When a USB device is connected, even if it supports USB autosuspend,
> the cpu will never go down more than C3 (apparently the mode is
> disabled by the BIOS).
> - After removing all the USB devices, in AC it enters C4 and in
> battery it enters C6.
> 
> So one more reason not to use USB devices while on battery...

Did you try that using only EHCI (unload uhci_hcd) and USB2.0 devices?

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