[ltp] Maximum sleep time R52?

[m h]

Can anyone with an intel graphics card comment on sleeping and/or
using vbetool?  (The documentation for vbetool is sparse (read
non-existant)).

thanks

matt

On 3/20/06, m h <sesquile@gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgot to reply to list...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: m h <sesquile@gmail.com>
> Date: Mar 20, 2006 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [ltp] Maximum sleep time R52?
> To: "Igor V. Rafienko" <igorr@ifi.uio.no>
>
>
> On 3/20/06, Igor V. Rafienko <igorr@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> > on Mar 20, 2006, 14:12, m h wrote:
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > > I'm not using the modem.
> > > Mostly just wireless....
> >
> >
> > Try unloading usb modules, firewire modules, wireless modules. Check
> > people's scripts on google for R52 (someone else is bound to have found
> > something like that).
>
> Will Google more.  Most references to R52s are for the ATI variety....
>
> radeontools has been mentioned (basically, you need
> > to find how much the laptop draws during sleep)
> >
>
> Again, I don't have an ati card.  Maybe I'll try vbetools.
>
> FYI, I did a simple port of the script  (
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ACPI_sleep_power_drain_test_script ) to
> python using my values:
> date_before =3D 1142892198
> bat_before =3D 49050
>
> date_after =3D 1142893513
> bat_after =3D 48780
>
> diff =3D bat_after - bat_before
> seconds =3D date_after - date_before
> usage =3D (diff * 60. * 60)/seconds
>
> print "before:", bat_before
> print "after:", bat_after
> print "diff", diff
> print "seconds:", seconds
> print "result:", usage
>
> threshhold =3D 1000
>
> if usage > threshhold:
>     print "congrats"
> else:
>     print "affected"
>
> $ python /tmp/bat.py
> before: 49050
> after: 48780
> diff -270
> seconds: 1315
> result: -739.163498099
> affected
>
> It seems like there is a logic error in the script though...
> Shouldn't the test for usage> threshhold be abs(usage) < threshhold?
>