You are right: laptop-mode no more floods my syslog with messages. And you were right in another way, too: As long as it did Syslog did make the hard drive spin up only once every few minutes or so.
thanks a lot, and kind regards, Gunter. ** Changed in: laptop-mode-tools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/772961 Title: laptop-mode outputs data to syslog that causes hard drive spinups -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs