Re: [CRM114spam]: [Bug 10797] Something is consuming power after shutdown

From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 14:37:24 EST


* Renato S. Yamane (yamane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10797>
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481493>

Also add a Ubuntu equivalent which is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/110784

(In my case a Tosh Equium A100-306 )

> After poweroff, something still working and consuming power. So I loss
> ~4% of my battery charge in each 12h.
>
> If I shutdown my laptop using Kernel 2.6.24/25 when battery is 100%,
> after 12h my battery charge go to 96% (this information is checked with
> kpowersave and with LED available in my laptop that change color from
> blue to yellow when battery is not FULL).

I haven't got the actual numbers, but I'd say mine is a little more -
may be 10% from memory overnight. Certainly between a Sunday evening
and a Saturday afternoon there is nothing left for it to turn back on.

Following the thread I did notice I had w-o-l enabled; I've
disabled it - see if it makes any difference tonight.

Dave
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