> well its working however for some reason when one of the programs bombs > out (ie. gravitywars :) about a file not being found) the backlight has > been turned off. Damn strange however its better than the white/melting > scary stuff :)
Glad to hear that's better. I sure know how creepy that whiteout feels! > > I also changed /etc/inittab so that runlevel 2, the default, only launches > > 2 text console gettys and has more in higher runlevels. That way I don't > > waste CPU ticks on gettys I don't need. Likewise I don't use xdm so X is > > only running if I explicitly issue startx. And I have another runlevel (4) > > reserved to turn on all the networking things, eg. localhost webserver, > > sendmail, etc. > > > "you speak to me as if I'm a rookie" :) Actually, I usu. babble like this because I'm a completist and I know it goes in the archives, but as I get closer to my work week on LG I do aim more noviceward than usual. I think. > I'm way ahead of you there, getty has been replaced with four mingetty's > and services I don't use have been turned off. Cool. > However I'm relutent to remove squid from my laptop, > unfortunately it prevents my harddisk from spinning down and it reduces > kapm from 85% to about 50% :( however I usually shut it down when I'm not > using it :) Hmm, maybe you can find a caching system that doesn't do busy work when the web isn't busy? We've got lots of .deb's after all... I use squid myself, but only on the desktop. I go too many different sites from the laptop to get much gain. > I'm happy with the pcmcia stuff, especially since I have obtained my new > flashy Netgear FA510 mcwhatsit which uses next to no power :) Excellent, I'll have to look for that card when I'm next getting toys... I always have like Netgear's hubs :) > thanks for the help, all that remains is the DGA stuff and the apmd > running through event.d twice! bugger..... > > Alex Well for that last, apm's commands all go via some text scripts, so we can probably find what code it sees when resuming that makes it do that. * Heather Stern * star@ many places...
