Re: ACPI Hibernate and Suspend Strange behavior 2.6.7/-mm1

[David Weinehall]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:16:55PM +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
> On 2004-07-06, Volker Braun <volker.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ACPI S3 draws too much power on the T40/T41, this has been confirmed by
> > various people (so its not just mine). Suspended it lasts about 10h,
> > about twice as long as powered up. Supposed to be 1-2 weeks. 
> 
> I'm glad I'm not the only one that is suspecting that.  I just tried
> switching my T40p from APM to ACPI.  I got suspending to RAM working in
> ACPI, but noticed that when I got it back out of my laptop bag later, it
> was physically warm to the touch.  It also had consumed more battery
> power than it would have when suspended with APM.  And, if I would shine
> a bright light on the screen, I could make out text on it.  In other
> words, the backlight was off but it was still displaying stuff.

Does poweroff work for you?  At least my T40 has problems shutting off
properly when using 2.6 + ACPI.  A bit annoying; I have to keep the
powerkey pressed for a few seconds for it to turn off.


Regards: David Weinehall
-- 
 /) David Weinehall <tao@xxxxxxxxxx> /) Northern lights wander      (\
//  Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel   //  Dance across the winter sky //
\)  http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/    (/   Full colour fire           (/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/