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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