Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262795AbVCJRgA (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:36:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262787AbVCJRcr (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:32:47 -0500 Received: from inutil.org ([193.22.164.111]:60545 "EHLO vserver151.vserver151.serverflex.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262942AbVCJR1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:27:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:27:24 +0100 To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Average power consumption in S3? Message-ID: <20050310172724.GA6211@informatik.uni-bremen.de> References: <20050309142612.GA6049@informatik.uni-bremen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Moritz Muehlenhoff X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 84.137.120.245 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmm@inutil.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vserver151.vserver151.serverflex.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 22 Matthew Garrett wrote: > Radeons don't actually power down in D3 unless some registers are set, > and even then the kernel doesn't currently have any code that would put > the Radeon in D3. If you're willing to test something, could you try the > code at > > http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/radeon/ > > immediately before putting the machine into suspend? Make sure that you > do this from something other than X. This reduces power consumption from ca. 1500 to ca. 1200 mWh, so it's already a huge improvement, but with 1.5 days of maximal suspend still pretty far away from a week. Cheers, Moritz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/