[lug] laptop mode thinkering (2.6.6 kernel)

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Ferdinand" == Ferdinand Schmid <fschmid at archenergy.com> writes:

Ferdinand> HI, Are you simply looking for ACPI to turn off your hard
Ferdinand> drive?  I didn't realize this was difficult at all.  On

ACPI has no way of directly spinning down drives. 

Ferdinand> SuSE 9.1 it just happens (kernel 2.6.4-54.5-default).  I
Ferdinand> can't find any spindown rpm...

It might be that they have acpid setup and are using a script of some
kind when you are on battery? acpid just calls a script when a
specific ACPI event happens... 

Ferdinand> FYI - I am running JFS on my root partition and XFS on my
Ferdinand> home partition.

Cool. 

Ferdinand> If I can make it to hacking society on Tursday I'll be
Ferdinand> happy to let you poke around my laptop to see how this is
Ferdinand> implemented on my laptop.

Sure, that might be interesting. I suspect they have a acpid script
that does the work... 

Ferdinand> Ferdinand

kevin
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