Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:14:46 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> Subject: Re: Suspend drains battery on IBM T42 Message-ID: <200510121914.55110.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051012155949.G54439@3jane.math.ualberta.ca> References: <20051012155949.G54439@3jane.math.ualberta.ca>
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--nextPart1481447.vexa4lHics Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 12 October 2005 06:10 pm, Barkley Vowk wrote: > I just got a new T42 notebook, and everything works ok, except when > I drop the notebook into acpi sleep, it burns through the battery > in 8 hours or so. It would be nice if the notebook could suspend at > least overnight. I have the exact same problem on my Fujitsu P2110. Try this patch to acpi_video: http://am-productions.biz/docs/acpi_video_dpms.patch It helps (you'll probably get 10-12 hours now) as it will shutoff the=20 video adapter, but I still have the power drain problem. I'm not=20 sure what isn't powering down correctly since I've tried to suspend=20 with all the power management tunables for max power saving. In my /boot/loader.conf: hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=3D"3" =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart1481447.vexa4lHics Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDTZjvxqA5ziudZT0RAo0IAJkB5ulec+pPX73wEJ7J0SBXqD5MSwCgk2rb SFMOPGUjTNUSCo9W3jqb+Rg= =Nk6a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1481447.vexa4lHics--
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