On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:31 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > One setting I noticed rereading the config file was this one: > > > > <SNIP> > > Enable laptop mode always, not just when on battery? > > # (This will still disable laptop mode when the battery almost runs out.) > > LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=0 > > <SNIP> > > > > Since it's a desktop machine it would seem that maybe laptop mode is > > not totally operational since I would never be on battery? I'm trying > > changing this to '1' and seeing what happens. > > You can check if laptop_mode is enabled with: > > cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode > > My desktop says 0 (disabled), and my laptop says 2 (enabled, but no idea > why it's not 1). > > Moreover, if your filesystem is ext3, a "mount" shows the following: > > /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,acl,user_xattr,commit=600) > > where the important part is the option "commit=600", the value being > your MAX_AGE parameter. If laptop_mode is disabled, the parameter is > either absent or "commit=0".
If you really want to learn more about power management in Linux, I suggest you google for laptop_mode or you can read the article in the spanking new MyOSS Magazine at http://mag.my-opensource.org which lists all the links in one place for your perusal. otherwise.. try cat /usr/share/doc/laptop[tab]/laptop-mode.gz -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 00:02:49 up 12:15, 9 users, load average: 0.60, 0.54, 0.53 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
