power management experiences with joyride-1572

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Chris Ball wrote:

> Hi Frank,
>
>   > Hi - I've been dabbling with joyride-1572 on a g1g1 laptop for a
>   > day or few, and have noticed the suspend feature kick in after a
>   > few seconds of apparent inactivity.  I have some questions about
>   > whether some specific experiences with this are expected:
>
>   > - that a resume operation begins only with a keyboard/touchpad
>   > input, and takes 1-2 seconds for interactiveness to return?
>
> Yes, the resume operation is triggered by user input, or a wireless
> packet addressed to the host (or some battery-related events).  It
> can't be triggered by anything in software unless that's organized
> ahead of time; the CPU is turned off completely in the suspend mode.

is there any way a timer can wake you up again?

I'll leave the system sitting idle with alpine running and the system will 
suspend between checks for new mail. if it would wake up again when it was 
time to check there wouldn't be a problem

David Lang