On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:40, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Moritz Muehlenhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X31. With stock 2.6.11 and the additional > > radeontool to power-off the backlight in suspend, S3 works very well > > and reliable. During S3 I've measured a power consumption of 1400 > > to 1500 mWh (using 512 megabytes of RAM). Is there still room for > > optimization? What's the typical amount of energy required for suspend- > > to-ram? From friends using iBooks with MacOS X I've heard that they > > left the notebook in suspend when leaving for a week and could still > > use it after return. > > Radeons don't actually power down in D3 unless some registers are set, > and even then the kernel doesn't currently have any code that would put > the Radeon in D3. If you're willing to test something, could you try the > code at > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/radeon/ > > and do > > radeontool power off > > immediately before putting the machine into suspend? Make sure that you > do this from something other than X.
Small question, can this tool do what the boot-radeon tool can? That way I can scrap another one in my suspend-to-ram tricks ;p Jan -- I tripped over a hole that was sticking up out of the ground. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/