[Linux-disciples] GUI to control power settings

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2005-01-02T15:31:15-0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> The hard drive won't shut down if there is hard drive activity. You can
> use noflushd to spin down the hard drive when there is no activity,
> regardless of open or closed status. Last I checked, the kernel didn't
> have the proper hooks for noflushd to talk to ext3, so the periodic
> journaling limited the effectivenes of the system.  That may have been
> fixed more recently.

Laptop-mode is in recent kernel versions.  The accompanying Debian
package "laptop-mode-tools" hooks into apmd and acpid, whichever one
you're running.

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