KDM xauth (WAS: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing)

2004-05-26 Thread Achim Bohnet
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 21:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > P.S. On the off chance that this had something to do w/using gdm as > my display manager, I edited /etc/X11/default-display-manager to be > /usr/bin/kdm instead of /usr/bin/gdm. Didn't help, although it was > -intensely- irritating th

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-20 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres Maig 19 2004 15:58, en Antiphon va escriure: | Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode? Yes, it is... - -- Joan Tur (aka Quini), Eivissa-Spain Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo & AIM: quini2k ww

KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread foner-debian-kde
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:40:24 +0200 From: Sylvain Joyeux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have the same problem here (writing of kdeglobals and korgacrc for no obvious reasons). I don't have time to check the KDE sources. See Riku Voipio's recent message (and my response) in this thread.

KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread foner-debian-kde
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 16:59:21 +0300 From: Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:17:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the instant I actually log in, I get constant disk spinups, > again because I cannot keep KDE from -constantly- writing > ~/.

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread Anders Ellenshøj Andersen
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:58, Antiphon wrote: > Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode? I think so. It was announced that way on kerneltrap.org. Anders -- This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.2.2 on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:17:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the instant I actually log in, I get constant disk spinups, > again because I cannot keep KDE from -constantly- writing > ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and korgacrc. This wasn't happening > in the (much older) KDE in my Mand

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread Antiphon
Question: Is 2.6.6 the first kernel version to include laptop mode? On May 18, 2004 5:37 pm, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Dimarts Maig 18 2004 21:53, en [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: > | [Please keep me CC'ed! I"m not on debian-kde. Tnx.] > | > | I'v

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
I have the same problem here (writing of kdeglobals and korgacrc for no obvious reasons). I don't have time to check the KDE sources. Tell me: you do want to _use_ your laptop, don't you ? If not, just put it into sleep :p. If you do, then you'll save data, read, whatever and - eventually - you

KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-19 Thread foner-debian-kde
***PLEASE*** KEEP ME CC'ED. I had to go dig the messages I'm replying to out of the archive (and almost didn't see them at all) because I'm not on debian-kde! I still can't keep my laptop's disk from being constantly spun up by KDE. Thank you for the suggestions about laptop_mode and smart_spind

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-18 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts Maig 18 2004 21:53, en [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: | [Please keep me CC'ed! I"m not on debian-kde. Tnx.] | | I've just started using Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad 240, having used | Debian on a desktop, and Mandrake 8.2 on an identical Thi

Re: KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-18 Thread Sylvain Joyeux
if you're using noflushd, then the writing you're reporting isn't what is waking up your HD. The main problem I see here is that ext3 commits its journal every 5 (or 10, don't remember exactly) seconds, and noflushd does not know what to do about this If you're running a recent enough kernel,

KDE is preventing laptop disk spindown by incessant configfile-writing

2004-05-18 Thread foner-debian-kde
[Please keep me CC'ed! I"m not on debian-kde. Tnx.] I've just started using Debian Sarge on a Thinkpad 240, having used Debian on a desktop, and Mandrake 8.2 on an identical ThinkPad. Unfortunately, it's driving me crazy, because KDE 3.2 insists on writing out ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and