[Pm-utils] Pm-hibernate consumes battery

[Victor Lowther]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:03 +0100, Explinux wrote:
> I have a Macbook with Archlinux distro.
> I usually Hibernate the machine, with pm-hibernate, when I am done
> for the day. The battery is 100% because I usually
> run plugged in.
> 
> When I restart in the morning, the battery is down to 95%!?!
> The machine run the correct boot sequence ( grub and mkinitcpio ) and
> it resume my previous session. The machine seems halted, but the
> battery isn't plus full charged.
> 
> It's a bug? it's possible ?

Very much so, I am afraid.  Even after you have ruled out all other
causes (wake on lan, etc.), the battery itself will slowly lose
charge.  

If you just shut down the laptop instead of hibernating, do you get a
similar drop in battery charge?

> I use Hibernate also with KDE4: same problem !!!
> I know the difference between hibernation and suspension, but ...
> 
> Kernel: 2.6.27.8
> Pm-Utils: 1.2.3
> 
> /etc/pm/config.d/config:
> 
> SUSPEND_MODULES="ath_pci"
> 
> 
> I don't have other config files.
> Very thanks for your responses.
> 
> Explinux
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