A while back I posted that I was having problems with my notebook parking the hard drive. I saw this repeated by others as well.
I have an update, but first, to reiterate: The problem is that the hard drive will park (spin down) and then in <1 second, spin back up again. This repeats ad infinitum regardless of my activities on the desktop. I have already been through the questions of noflushd and stuff like that. In short, I've done everything I could in the Battery-Powered HOWTO. I switch to fvwm2 for a while to see if the problem would continue. I did this because I know that gnome would also park nicely but had since removed it from my computer and fvwm2 was easier to install. The point is, that this is a non-KDE desktop (mostly?). Now, it parks just fine. It's wonderful. It's exactly as advertized. Now to figure out what's wrong with the testing/KDE installation that's causing this. I am running kdm as well, and choose fvwm2 over kde from the drop-down box. I know that something kde-ish is probably still running because the background is mysteriously shaded the same as it is in KDE for my desktop. But I'm not sure what, so I've included a list of everything running right now.
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 02:40 ? 00:00:03 init [2] root 2 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 4 02:40 ? 00:09:25 [kapm-idled] root 4 0 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [kswapd] root 6 0 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [bdflush] root 7 0 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [kupdated] root 13 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 update -s 3600 -f 3600 root 45 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 [khubd] daemon 94 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/portmap root 166 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd root 169 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/klogd root 174 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/rpc.statd root 181 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apm-sleep -U 0 root 184 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:13 /usr/sbin/apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy mail 197 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30m root 236 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 241 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/irattach irda0 -s root 251 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 272 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/cardmgr postgres 347 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data root 356 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 359 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon root 365 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/noflushd -n 5 /dev/hda daemon 368 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 371 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 379 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache root 384 1 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/kdm root 388 1 0 02:40 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 389 1 0 02:40 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 390 1 0 02:40 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 391 1 0 02:40 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 392 1 0 02:40 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 393 1 0 02:40 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 www-data 396 379 0 02:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache root 547 384 2 02:42 ? 00:05:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/kdm/authfiles/A:0-idtfyK root 2291 384 0 05:15 ? 00:00:00 -:0 tallison 2356 2291 0 05:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 tallison 2389 2356 0 05:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 tallison 2390 2356 0 05:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.5/FvwmCommandS 9 6 /etc/X11/fvwm/system.warnings 0 8 tallison 2394 2356 0 05:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.5/FvwmPager 9 4 /etc/X11/fvwm/post.hook 0 8 0 0 tallison 2415 1 0 05:17 ? 00:00:01 lyx tallison 2485 2356 0 05:30 ? 00:00:00 xterm tallison 2486 2485 0 05:30 pts/0 00:00:00 bash tallison 2487 2486 0 05:30 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2492 2487 11 05:30 pts/0 00:03:06 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2494 2492 0 05:30 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2495 2494 0 05:30 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2496 2494 0 05:30 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2503 2494 0 05:31 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2519 2356 0 05:58 ? 00:00:00 xterm tallison 2520 2519 0 05:58 pts/2 00:00:00 bash tallison 2522 2520 0 05:58 pts/2 00:00:00 ps -ef
