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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Power Drain during Suspend to Disk
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:33:59
Message-Id: 1202427162.6932.2.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Power Drain during Suspend to Disk by Thomas Kahle
1 On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:34 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote:
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5 > Hi all
6 > for some time now, maybe since I updated to Kernel 2.6.23, I experience
7 > power drain during suspend to disk (yes, you read correctly DISK).
8 > I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X30 and the problem is recent. I assume that
9 > its some kernel option keeping the ethernet alive for wake on lan, or
10 > something like that.
11 > Has anyone experienced this, and/or knows kernel options that can be
12 > responsible for that ?
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14 A laptop I assume?!
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16 Are you sure you don't have the same drain when powering off? in my
17 experience, WOL is always a bios setting - did you look there?
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19 What happens if you suspend to disk, then take the battery out for a few
20 minutes or more - can you resume? (put it back in of course)
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22 HTH,
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24 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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26 Consensus Terrorism:
27 The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.
28 -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
29 Culture"
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Re: [gentoo-user] Power Drain during Suspend to Disk Thomas Kahle <tom111@×××.de>