On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 06:23, Pete Toscano wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 08:49, Dexter Ang wrote: > > > > Can you try what Dexter did? or you can go from graphical desktop to > > console and back. It worked for me. > > > > Atrl-alt-F1 then ctrl-alt-f7 > > I'm not sure if you're telling me to go to console, suspend there, then > return to X once I've resumed or if you're just telling me to switch > between X->console->X after I've resumed from a suspend. If it's the > latter, that doesn't recover the pointer for me. I can change run > levels, exit and re-login, nothing seems to recover the pointer. If > it's the former, I tried that and it works. It was the latter.. But didn't work for you. It used to work for me. > > Speaking for only suspending from a virtual console, I tried that last > night before heading home with my laptop. (With "echo 3 > > /proc/acpi/sleep".) I didn't use it at home as I had expected, but when > I came back in today and plugged it back in, the battery power was only > at 6%. This suspension state used much more battery than hitting Fn-F4 > did in FC1 (with APM). Is there something else I should have done to > decrease the power usage? Suspend to RAM does use up power. I never had success with my D600. So, I forgot about it and use S4 instead. Sorry..
