Faster battery discharge when resumed from hibernate. SOLVED

gpgdx · Post by **gpgdx** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:10 pm

Hello all,

I am running LMDE with liquorix 3.7.0-10.dmz.2 (686) kernel on Acer Aspire 3820TG.

After some configuration with the help of google (a lot of which was retrieved from this forum) I generally have a great battery life. When my machine starts normally (i.e. after a previous shut down or a reboot), my battery is reporting a discharge at the rate of about 10W. But when I resume from a hibernate the battery discharges at about 26W-27W (so, the battery drains faster). Also, the machine gets heated up more after I resume from a hibernate as opposed to a normal operation after normal start-up. I don't know what diagnostic information to provide to help locate the problem. So, to keep it simple, I leave it here**. I would grateful if anyone can provide hints as to what might be the issue. I can provide more information if you suggest me what details would help.

Best regards,
Gopal

**p.s. Some details of my configs just in case:
1. Graphic card: ATI mobility radeon HD5650 (hybrid graphics)
2. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux pcie_aspm=force acpi_backlight=vendor radeon.audio=1 resume=/dev/sda1"
3. # cat /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf
options radeon modeset=1
4. # cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
options i915 modeset=1 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1 semaphores=1
5. I use a stripped down version of hardran3's powersave script (http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=11954)

DrHu · Post by **DrHu** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:22 pm

OK, about the script, but I would also check general information ref: power management
http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-power-manager/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20101118
--as well as any bugs/issues

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/500997
--I am thinking something like this may a fault, so script checkup

I would basically tease out that whole script you reference and see if you can spot any likely points of contention (parameters being selected, for example )..

gpgdx · Post by **gpgdx** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:04 pm

Thanks for the reply. Now it will take some time for me to digest the suggestions, gather information and perform tests. I noticed one thing in pm-utils power.d scripts. It seems that the scripts under /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d (e.g. laptop-mode, sata-alpm, pcie_aspm etc. that came installed by default with pm-utils) don't have any effect even though they have execute permission. They work when I copy them to /etc/pm/power.d. Is this the expected behaviour? Well, I am sorry if this is a digression.

Best regards,
Gopal

gpgdx · Post by **gpgdx** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:17 pm

One more thing I forgot to mention in my first post is: powertop shows everything (except wireless powersaving for interface wlan0) as "Good" in both cases (i.e. after normal start-up as well as after resuming from hibernate). Would it perhaps mean that the problem is somewhere outside the pm scripts?

Best regards,
Gopal

gpgdx · Post by **gpgdx** » Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:31 am

I have so far found only one difference between resume from hibernate and from shutdown. It is that powertop says "Autosuspend for USB device Acer Module [Broadcom Corp]" is Bad when resumed from hibernate as opposed to Good otherwise (both on battery and AC). Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

gpgdx · Post by **gpgdx** » Wed Mar 27, 2013 4:52 pm

I found the fix at URL, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873027. This fix can be automated using the script provided in the point 5 of this blog (http://blog.lazut.in/2012/06/vgaswitche ... uered.html). After applying it, now the battery discharge rate on my laptop is around 10-12W both after resuming from the hibernate as well as shutdown.

P.S. After discovering this fix, I am afraid if the diagnostic information I focused on previously was misdirecting.

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