Am Sonntag, 12. September 2004 17:28 schrieb Bryan Forbes: Hi, > I forgot one question: > 4. I use XFS for my filesystem. Will this screw up laptop-mode-tools? No.
> On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 10:26 -0500, Bryan Forbes wrote: > > I've taken a look at laptop-mode-tools and I have a few questions: > > > > 1. What's the difference between that and noflushd? I know much but not everything, sorry ;-) > > 2. Will it reduce the temperature of the hard drive on my iBook G4? With activated laptopmode and set spindown timeout (see option -S of hdparm) your hard drive is able to sleep for a long time. This will reduce temperature for sure. > > 3. It suggests pbuttonsd, but what does pbuttonsd offer that pmud > > doesn't offer in regards to laptop mode utilities? Nothing. The laptop-mode-tools recommend a power management daemon. This could be apmd or acpid or pmud or pbbuttonsd. It's up to you. Best regards Matthias
