Subject: Re: power use while suspended?
To: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/04/2006 19:30:39
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:15:52 +0200, Stefan Sperling
<stsp@stsp.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 06:37:29PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I have a laptop (a Thinkpad T42) which seems to use a preposterous
> > amount of power while suspended.
> 
> Maybe this is related:
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep
> 
Hmm -- T42 is listed as unaffected, but I'll check the patches.  I
wonder if switching to text mode before suspending would help.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb