Power-drain during suspend?

Gregers Petersen gp.ioa at cbs.dk
Sat Feb 11 13:39:23 PST 2006


Tobias Roth wrote:

>>> 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. 
> 
Yes - I'm using Radeontool in the suggested way with both display & dac ..


> Wasn't there an issue with usb drivers not being able to properly
> shut down and put into powersave mode all connected devices? Has
> that been remedied?
> 
> If not you could try removing everything usb-related from your
> kernel, and making sure no usb modules are loaded and test again.
> 

The thing is that I'm in need of USB-related functions on a more or less 
daily basis, which makes it difficult to remove the relevant 
kernel-modules :-/

Gregers Petersen


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