Bruno Ducrot wrote:

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:37:32PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

quoted

quoted

Additionally, you probably want to consider the suspend2 kernel patch
series from http://www.suspend2.net/ to allow for reliably shutting the
system off without losing state and storing memory into your swap
partition or a file.

Has nothing to do at all with suspend to ram and the power consumption
when suspended.

I'm not sure you are right with that claim.  There may be some code
onto suspend2 patches that may help improve suspend/resume devices that
are not yet merged to mainline.  I don't think however this fill fix
the thinkpad problem of the OP though.

See "S3: high power consumption - Thinkpad T40/T41"
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3022

They have a patch that applies to the mainline kernel and fixes the problem.  It
is a video problem.  If the patch doesn't work immediatly for you, you might
have to add video=radeonfb:force_sleep=1 to the kernel command line and then add
your machine's dmi data to the whitelist.  The whitelist is pretty big by now,
though, so you may already be covered.

--Vernon

It's actually more or less a guess since I have not looked actually to
the suspend2 code.