[ltp] vbestate works, but...

[Mario Limonciello]

Nils wrote:

>>I agree, ATI has been extremely unhelpful and I am not likely to support
>>them again. A year ago they told me to use the external agpgart module, I
>>see that even though they have an open case, they still will not
>>acknowledge this to be a problem on their side - i.e. fglrx. I really
>>believe they have enough information to solve this.
>>
>>Whether I resume from RAM/disk I don't get issues with glxgears or
>>fgl_glxgears. I do however have Xorg and a custom dsdt, might be that. And
>>the high power consumption goes away when I restart X after reloading
>>fglrx, funnily enough. Wonder what it re-initialises?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Niel
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Niel.
>I don't need a cutom dsdt since two month. It seems that IBM has released a 
>bios with a correct dsdt. (a wonder ...)
>The fgl_glxgears problem seems to exists in combination with Xfree. There 
>seems to be no problems with Xorg. (Mario in this list has also no problems)
>Yes. The high power consumption goes away with restarting X, but not 
>completely. Without restart I need approximate 8W more power. With restarting 
>I need still 2W more power. Can you check this ?
>Nils
>  
>
The high power consumption still occurs with me too.  Whether its using 
the fake X server trick or restarting X alltogether, i still have issues 
with it.

On another note, I may have mentioned this before, but I have issues 
with it deciding to turn itself off.  Previously, with APM it seemed 
that laptop had some predefined period where it would sense no activity 
at the keyboard or mouse and suspend to ram if no usage occurred.  Now 
with ACPI, it will just flat out turn off - no powering down no 
suspending.  I looked throughout the BIOS and dont see anything that 
would lead me to believe that it was a setting there, and there is 
nothing of the such in acpid or cpufreqd.  Any idea how to resolve this 
- or does this occur for you guys too?