Hi everyone, Just wanted to ask about some things I've had troubles with lately. Maybe someone has some tips.
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-Z11 and am currently running Fedora 11 Preview Release together with Eva's sony-laptop module 0,9, but I experience the exact same issues in Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu 9.04. 1) Suspend to RAM and hibernation works fine, when triggered manually through menus, closing lid or pressing power button. But, setting the laptop to suspend after x minutes of idle time in gnome power settings has no effect. It never suspends/hibernates automatically, although, the screensaver kicks in fine. 2) Dim and brightness behavior bugs me generally. I have set screen to dim after idle to save battery, which works fine. But the brightness does not reset to previous level when going back. I think what does is to set the brightness level according to gnome power settings. Also, when watching movies using XBMC, Youtube etc. screen dim and eventually goes into screen saver, which I obviously don't want. 3) I have no exact steps to reproduce this, but after using the computer for some time (< 20 minutes) the WLAN led starts blinking, and does that periodically until I reboot. This never happens in Window, and even though haven't noticed any difference in behavior yet, I suspect it might not be optimal. 4) I haven't heard anything lately regarding the mic. Is there still noone who have got this working? 5) Does anyone have any general tips on reducing power consumption? I'm running laptopmode-tools, turning of bluetooth/wwan through rfkill switch and of course dimming screen brightness, which gets me down to about 14W while browsing web through WLAN. Same settings in Windows Vista uses only about 11W. I've had a look at the suggestions powertop gives me, but the results have been unsignificant. Regards, Kim
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