Brandon Philips wrote: > On 23:19 Thu 06 Mar 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> Ganesha Bhaskara wrote: >> > Tomas Carnecky wrote: >> >> .. there are none! >> >> >> >> According to powertop my X61 laptop runs for >5 hours when on a full >> >> battery (if I lower the brightness all the way to the lowest value, >> >> disable wireless/bluetooth, no xserver running, only console etc). >> >> Today at 1:30pm I closed the lid of the laptop, causing it to go into >> >> suspend to ram. >> > Did you confirm this ? ..... I suspect your X61 did not suspend to ram. >> > On my laptop, that is a light that starts blinking when the computer is >> > suspended. >> > There must be something on your X61 that indicates the same. Also try to >> > suspend the computer with the lid open to check if suspend is working >> > correctly. >> >> Then I forgot about the laptop and at about 19:00pm I >> >> wanted to do something with my laptop so I got it and saw that it was >> >> down, battery completely empty! The laptop was still warm, >> > Again indicates suspend was not successful. >> >> When I close the lid or press Fn+F4 (that is the sleep shortcut on >> thinkpads), this script is executed: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> >> # if launched through a lid event and lid is open, do nothing >> echo "$1" | grep "button/lid" && grep -q open >> /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state && exit 0 >> >> echo "7 blink" > /proc/acpi/ibm/led >> >> sync >> echo mem > /sys/power/state >> >> >> Obviously it's difficult to test whether the laptop went into sleep when >> I close the lid -.- >> >> Maybe there's something wrong with that script logic or the my kernel >> (.25-rc3). But thanks for the heads up that the laptop should last much >> longer. > > .25-rc3 has a problem with IBM Thinkpad lid and ACPI switches. I don't > know if the attached patch has hit Git but try it out, it fixed my lid > switch issues. > > BTW, you can tell that a X6* Thinkpad has gone to sleep by the little > moon icon that lights up on the lid.
The moon starts blinking (see the $ echo "7 blink" ...) and after a few seconds it stops blinking and stays on forever. And while the laptop is in sleep I can't ping it. Either I screwed up and didn't put the laptop into sleep properly, or something fishy is going on... I don't need sleep that badly, so I'll wait for the next kernel release. tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@LessWatts.org http://mail.lesswatts.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
