S3 on a Sony VGN-A290

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20041210133615.GA1482 at genius.tao.org.uk>
            Josef Karthauser <joe at freebsd.org> writes:
: Grump.  I leave my new Sony in S3 and come back to it in the morning to
: find that it's run out of battery :/.  I thought that S3 was a low
: energy state.  Anyone else got a similar machine?  Is it a problem with
: the machine or our ACPI?  (I'm running RELENG_5 on it).

It is a Low energy state.  However, it isn't a NO energy state.

Warner