Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread David Vasek
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:54 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. Is there any way to avoid this

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Chris
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:54 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: > >> I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode >> with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. >> Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
David Vasek wrote > On the other hand, I can confirm similar behaviour with APM - complete > discharge of battery within around a day in my APM suspended T42. As I > have never run any other OS on my ThinkPad but OpenBSD, I thought short > battery life in suspend was normal with ThinkPads and used

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread David Vasek
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Jan-Erik Skata wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Chris wrote: I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the sy

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread David Vasek
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, L. V. Lammert wrote: Check out the difference between suspend & hibernate; suspend uses battery power to maintain memory state for a quicker restore, hibernate flushes memory to disk and uses no battery power. Sorry to hijack your thread. Could anybody please answer this (

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Jan-Erik Skata
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Chris wrote: > I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode > with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. > Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the system > completely and turning it back on

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: > I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode > with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. > Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the system > completely and turning it back on again? > > Th

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Lars Nooden
Chris wrote: > I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode > with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. > Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the system > completely and turning it back on again? I see similar for current o

laptop suspend and battery runs dry

2009-08-24 Thread Chris
I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the system completely and turning it back on again? Thanks.