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
