[ltp] T40, ACPI, and sleeping

Chris Frost linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 25 May 2005 21:15:41 -0700


On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:29:22PM -0700, Chris Frost wrote:
> The lcd's backlight is off during sleep. I am not using the patch at
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3022 as I am not using the
> kernel fb (I assume this only applies if one is).

In case one does need to use the radeon fb and the patch to enable
sleeping, I turned this on and applied the above patch. A five minute
suspend to ram using the thinkwiki test script yielded:

Wed May 25 20:58:40 PDT 2005
before: 39570 mWh
after: 39370 mWh
diff: -200 mWh
seconds: 337 sec
result: -2136 mW
Your model seems to be affected.


(thanks again)
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