Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-02 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Correction: laptop-tools 1.60 supports kernel 3.x. You have to pull the tarball, but its only a matter of running a shell script to install it anyway. I am having some issues with my harddrives spinning down too fast and waking up too easily now, but its being resolved. You can find the tarball h

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-02 Thread Tim
Konstantin Svist: >> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=laptop+mode+tools Joe Zeff: > Cute. Rude, but cute. Much better and more polite would have been to > point me directly to http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/fedora. I would have tried a slightly different yum query. Such as "yum search laptop" to

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-02 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Thanks for the replies everyone! Laptop-mode unfortunately does not support kernel 3.1 (I am running F16 Beta)...hopefully this will be updated, it seems like a great tool. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Tim Largy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Christopher Svanefalk > wrote: > > De

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Tim Largy
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Dear all, > one problem I have on my system is the frequency with which the kernel winds > up the HDD. It is hot almost constantly, and never seems to power down. Is > there anything I can do (aside from deactivating updatedb and the l

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/01/2011 06:19 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=laptop+mode+tools > Cute. Rude, but cute. Much better and more polite would have been to point me directly to http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/fedora. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscri

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/01/2011 06:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/01/2011 05:42 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: >> Also have a look at Laptop Mode Tools (only recommended for laptop, mind!) > What package provides them? (I'd check with yum for "laptop mode tools" > but I've learned from experience that the obvious ofte

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/01/2011 05:42 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: > Also have a look at Laptop Mode Tools (only recommended for laptop, mind!) What package provides them? (I'd check with yum for "laptop mode tools" but I've learned from experience that the obvious often doesn't work when it comes to this type of

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 11/01/2011 02:03 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > Dear all, > > one problem I have on my system is the frequency with which the kernel > winds up the HDD. It is hot almost constantly, and never seems to > power down. Is there anything I can do (aside from deactivating > updatedb and the lik

Re: Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread JB
Christopher Svanefalk gmail.com> writes: > > > Dear all, > > one problem I have on my system is the frequency with which the kernel winds up the HDD. It is hot almost constantly, and never seems to power down. Is there anything I can do (aside from deactivating updatedb and the like) in order

Forcing HDD spindown

2011-11-01 Thread Christopher Svanefalk
Dear all, one problem I have on my system is the frequency with which the kernel winds up the HDD. It is hot almost constantly, and never seems to power down. Is there anything I can do (aside from deactivating updatedb and the like) in order to force the system to a minimal use of the HDD? Thank