Hi, recently Stephane Bortzmeyer announced 'mobile-update' as an unofficial Debian package. I have installed the package. And purged it, to learn more about the 'dpkg-divert' mechanism. It restored the former 'update' package without any problems. Thanks Stephane.
But still I have some questions: 1) How do I know 'mobile-update' works? - 'man 8 update' didn't make this clear to me - /usr/doc/update is empty and /usr/doc/mobile-update is nearly empty - 'kupdate' is running, has this to do with 'update'? and couldn't find a manpage - probably I should have looked up kernel sources, but currently I had to remove them, my hd is full 2) How can I measure the result in powersaving easily? Maybe I can - refresh the battery as much as possible - start an infinite benchmark test (which one?) - use an 'uptime' daemon to measure the time until the machines goes down but this seems to long for me. Is there another approach? I want to measure other power saving techniques, too: - hdparm is a Linux IDE disk utility that lets you set spin-down timeouts and other disk parameters. - mount with 'noatime' option, thanks to Sean 'Shaleh' Perry - some other techniques I have described in the Laptop-HOWTO, and there are probably more Cheers :-> werner
