Fedora power management
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Mon Feb 19 15:10:48 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 09:24 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 at 9:14am, Jeremy Katz wrote
> > The default is for the driver to be suspended normally; SUSPEND_MODULES
> > is to list (broken) modules that have to be removed and reinserted
> > around the suspend process.
>
> Is it considered a (fixable, bugzillable) bug if normal suspending works
> but has undesirable effects? Example -- on my Thinkpad Z61t, suspend and
> wake-up worked out of the box with FC6, but the power drain was impressive
> (I have the figures at home, but it was >50% battery of capacity
> overnight). Some experimenting demonstarted that removing the USB modules
> before going to sleep dropped the sleeping power consumption considerably,
> so I put those in SUSPEND_MODULES. I figured this was model specific so I
> didn't bugzilla it. Should I?
It definitely doesn't hurt to file it so that it can be tracked. And
should probably be filed against kernel
Jeremy
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