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[Matthew Lai <cyberfish@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am also using 9.10 alpha 2, and have some of the problems you are 
having - no network with 2.6.31 (which doesn't fix the resume problem 
btw), and no resume from suspend, no min_power.

The bluetooth problem can be fixed by adding "hciconfig hci0 down" to 
/etc/rc.local. I find it doesn't add much to power consumption anyways, 
though.

I also don't need libata.force=ncq (don't need any special kernel 
parameters), but I have the SSD version. So I guess it's a bug with the 
harddrive, not the controller (or maybe it's a combination).

For flash, I use the flashblock plugin. It blocks all flash by default, 
leaving just a placeholder. Clicking on the placeholder will load the 
flash. It saves battery life, and most flash animations are ads anyways.

Franck Marcia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a happy owner of a 3810T (SU9400/GM4500/Bios 1.08, Karmic 64 bits
> alpha). I made any update I could find there and now here is the list
> of what is still buggy:
> - must stop bluetooth with fn+F3 manually at every boot,
> - fan issue (continually running on power, too regularly running on battery),
> - couldn't find a way (think about a hardware limitation now) to set
> link_power_management_policy to min_power for host0 (it's my last
> advice from powertop),
> - suspend doesn't work and shut down the laptop when trying to wake up,
> - the laptop doesn't turn on when I open the lid (perhaps not a issue...),
> - the luminosity management seems to be unstable: too may steps to
> raise or dim, weird behaviour when going from power to battery and
> vice versa.
>
> I upgraded yesterday Jaunty to Karmic and everything is fine except
> network: if I boot using 2.6.30-020630-generic kernel, it's as usual
> but if I use 2.6.31, I don't have any network anymore (looks like a
> driver issue: no network available at all). Any clue?
>
> What is better with 9.10 alpha (at least, for us, 3810T owners):
> - kind of powertop integrated to gnome power manager
> - better management of the luminosity using fn + left arrow / fn + right arrow
> - powertop and gnome power manager report now the same time remaining
> on battery.
>
> Oh, and my lower power consumption was 7,2W. Unfortunately, it raised
> a lot when I worked on a site that uses Flash (grrr)...
> ... until I found this:
> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html. It hangs firefox
> sometimes but don't use 100% CPU anymore.
>
> Cheers.
>
> PS: I still need libata.force=noncq in boot options
>
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