S3 power drain on Thinkpad R32 (fixed?)
So I had essentially been told that the improving the power drain due to the video subsystem during suspend to RAM was a hopeless case (it's a Radeon mobility M6 system).
However, I noticed some interesting comments in the radeonfb module and tried installing it and noticed that it improved battery life dramatically and doesn't need any video_post nonsense. It even seems to play OK with X, which is great.
I spoke to BenH who said that there may be recent ACPI fixes that address this issue outside of radeonfb. Does anyone know about this? That would be nice, since I don't quite trust radeon and radeonfb to be reliable together.
The kernel version is apatched 2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 with some minor tweaks and a patch that's supposed to make radeon and radeonfb work better together.
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I just wrote a thinkwiki article that explains the solutions, including the official FC4 kernel:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep
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