S3 on a Sony VGN-A290

[Nate Lawson]

Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 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).

Try a -current kernel.  It has more code to power down devices while in 
suspend but this part is too experimental to MFC for a while.

> ps. I remember some talk a while ago about a native S4 implementation -
> FreeBSD suspend to disk.  Has there been any progress in this direction?

Not that I know.  It's at the bottom of my "would be nice" list.

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Nate