On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:54, Alastair Munro wrote: > Hi Cameron, > > I checked a couple of the laptops after seeing your email about the > suspending, the wifi disappearing was after a suspend. I was thinking of > suspend in the terms of a normal laptop where suspending effectively turns > off the computer and saves state to the hard disk. I find it odd that the > suspend is still allowed to occur even when running off AC power though.
I think the idea is that power is precious in the majority of deployments (if not all of us). Burning cycles on a diesel generator, wind turbine, or solar is detrimental to every other device plugged into that limited power source. Regards, --Gary > -Alastair > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:13 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day Alastair, > > Thanks for responding. I'd like to drill down further into the facts > just to make sure we're not missing anything. > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:19:19AM +1300, Alastair Munro wrote: > > We did not disable suspend before testing, all these observations were > > made on a fresh boot while plugged into AC power with no suspending. > > You did not disable suspend, yet there was no suspending at all? That's > surprising. The design since about build os49 is that dim screen with > begin at about 15 seconds and suspend will begin at about 25 seconds of > idle. The suspend doesn't turn off the screen, so you might not notice > it. The power LED begins to blink at about a five second rate. > > Can you confirm that you keep the keyboard and touchpad active, and > never idle for more than 30 seconds? It is very hard to do that, > especially with other people interrupting. > > > The wireless just didn't seem to activate at all. When checking > > 'ifconfig -a' the only device shown was the local loopback device > > 'lo'. > > This is quite consistent with not knowing that an automatic idle suspend > has happened. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
