Resume problem with mouse, 5.3

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff at nist.gov>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:39:14 -0500
> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> 
> Anish Mistry <mistry.7 at osu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Also the issue about poor battery life under ACPI S3 suspend (I
> > believe your APM terminology is incorrect since APM suspend has good
> > battery life, but other stuff breaks) is that certain devices aren't
> > shutdown fully since they aren't in the 2110's DSDT and the drivers
> > don't shut them down as the should.  To get a significantly better
> > battery life you will need to search through the archives of this
> > list and look for the acpi_video DPMS patch posted by jhb.  This
> > will make things much better, but there are still a few things that
> > need to be fixed in the drivers.
> 
> I am running with the acpi_video patch, and I can have the laptop in
> S3 suspend for about a weekend.  (This is with the high-cap main
> battery and an expansion bay battery, btw.)  APM suspend indeed breaks
> something as I could never resume from it.
> 
> There was a recent patch mentioned which I am planning to try as
> well.  I know I should be able to achieve better suspended battery
> life, since I could go a week or two in APM suspend from Linux.
> 
> (Before I get labelled a Linux troll, I'm a recent convert to FreeBSD
> on my laptop and like it a lot so far... slimmer memory footprint and
> much better documented.  ACPI suspend never worked for me under Linux,
> so APM there is all I have to compare with.  Battery drain under
> suspend means I have to carry around a power cord again, and that's no
> fun.  I'm happy to test stuff as time permits.)

Look in the archives for acpi_pwr5.diff. The posting is by njl@ (Nate
Lawson). It will improve power management capability for PCI
devices. (It puts them in standby mode on a suspend to RAM.)
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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