ben knight wrote: > You need to install noflushd. It's a debian package [noflushd, > surprisingly enough]. This will make sure that your hard disk stays spun > down for as long as possible, saving battery etc. > > >>the hard drive spin down, then right back up again. >>Another minute, down, then up again. >>
These are nasty problems. noflushd is already installed according to apt-get and is running. After I sent this first email out I did two things: killed the debugging on kdm (should have done that when I got it working a month ago..) and then I killed konquerer and started playing some game. Then the disk parked! I have to do some more reading again and will keep my ears open. But this PC (with an ultra-bay battery) was able to get >7 hours of use on a charge. Now I'm down to 4 hours on a good day. I've turned of irda, unloaded my pcmcia card in hopes of helping this. But it seems that the power savings has taken a turn for the worse on this installation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
