Power-drain during suspend?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:06:15 +0100
> From: Gregers Petersen <gp.ioa at cbs.dk>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> Kevin Oberman wrote:
> 
> >>>>> hw.pci.do_power_nodriver=[1|2|3]
> 
> I have been changing the setting of the above to '3' - and done a bit of 
> "testing" with suspend/resume.
> The result is not much different from before, the R51 still "eats" the 
> battery after 6-7 hours of suspend :-/
> I have tried to suspend without X.org running to test if this had any 
> effect, but there is no clear difference - and I end up with pusslement.
> 
> Any suggestions about what else I could try out ?

Are you using radeontool and turning off both the DAC and the display
(assuming you have a Radeon video chip)? It saves a quite a bit of
power. Other than that, I'm not sure what to suggest.

Sorry, but maybe someone else has a better idea. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634