Bug 230027 - High battery power consumption in suspend mode
Summary: High battery power consumption in suspend mode
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xorg-x11-drv-ati
Version: 5.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-26 01:24 UTC by Philip Sherman
Modified: 2012-03-09 22:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-09 22:30:58 UTC
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Description Philip Sherman 2007-02-26 01:24:54 UTC 
Description of problem: Suspend mode does not turn off ATI Radeon 9000 video
circuitry. This is a known problem, particularly with IBM (Lenovo) Thinkpads. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): N/A


How reproducible: 100% failure rate 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Fn-F4 (suspend key)

  
Actual results: System suspends. Power consumption drops to ~12w/hr


Expected results: System suspends. Power consumption drops to ~0.6w/hr


Additional info:
Problem resolved in FC6 by loading radeonfb module. Radeonfb also significantly
improves video performance, measured by glxgears frame rate.

Recommendations:
1. Provide radeonfb module as supplemental module.
2. Provide kernel-devel rpm to allow users to generate proprietary (fglrx) ATI
driver.
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2012-03-09 22:30:58 UTC 
Fixed in RHEL6, not going to be fixed in RHEL5.
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