Thanks hackel, you made my day. I can once again put my hd to sleep!
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provide a way to disable drive polling
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27323
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This option is a sort of "make my computer not work correctly", not
really something any non technical user is going to use or that should
be in the nautilus interface, closing the nautilus task a won't fix,
could be added to some tweaker application rather
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
I agree that the UI is a separate issue. What I was wondering was whether hal
had this capability already, and after doing a little digging, discovered that
it indeed does, and is enabled by default in Ubuntu. For the benefit of anyone
else reading this, I'll explain.
(This is from /usr/share/
Aside from any posible future nautilus UI, I'm not seeing from the hal-
disable-polling documentation how someone could use it to disable all
polling. It looks like you'd have to mount an investigation to figure
out which devices were being polled (read the discussion in this bug to
see that it's n
Since hal itself is an UI-less system daemon, this should then
preferably be integrated into the "media" preferences of nautilus.
** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
Status: New
Martin,
Yes, of course hal-disable-polling exists. I guess it wasn't explicitly stated
in this bug, but what we need is a generic configuration mechanism to prevent
HAL from polling a particular device in the first place. We can't expect all
laptop users to figure out how to create a startup s
There is "hal-disable-polling" now, see manpage.
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Hi,
the bug showed in my case to be a problem with the power mangament which
allways spins down the hardrive.
I use ...
sudo hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda to stop that shit ...
bye
hackel schrieb:
> This bug is nearly 2 years old. Does the issue still exist, or is there
> now a way to disable polling,
This bug is nearly 2 years old. Does the issue still exist, or is there
now a way to disable polling, customise the polling interval, and/or
reduce polling to a single daemon? If not, I believe the priority of
this bug should be increased from "low" as it definitely has a negative
impact on power
