Yes, I think you are right. Since the laptop-mode messing has fortunately been removed from acpi-support the setting is obsoleted there and serves only for confusion.
Alexey wrote: It's interesting to know that current acpi-support in Debian unstable (1.109-5) has this comment in /etc/default/acpi-support: # Note: to enable "laptop mode" (to spin down your hard drive for longer # periods of time), install the laptop-mode-tools package and configure # it in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf. # # (Note to upgraders: earlier versions of the acpi-support package contained # an option to enable/disable laptop mode. This option has never actually # worked, and for that reason it has been removed.) (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/250938/comments/5) --- This issue can be fixed when laptop-mode-tools and acpi-support from Debian is merged. package laptop-mode-tools: /etc/init.d/laptop-mode: drop sourcing of /etc/default/acpi-support (another packages conffile) package acpi-support: /etc/default/acpi-support: remove the ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE setting and don't supress the above comment. -- laptop-mode needs to be activated in /etc/default/acpi-support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244838 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
