On 16/09/2004 at 08:54 +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 09:56:17PM +0200, Kiko Piris wrote: > > On 15/09/2004 at 20:04 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> > > Anything else doesn't make much sense. > > > > Nope, this is not true (at least for me :-). > Matthias _is_ right, you need a power management daemon to tell > laptop_mode when it turn it on or not. Yes, I know. What I was saying that it is not true is that "Anything else doesn't make much sense.", it does make sense for me. But I didn't mean to be rude or anything close to that (that's why I put a smiley there :-). > Laptop_mode is _no_ daemon that checks for ac power or not > periodically. I also know that, the daemon I was referring to, was pbbutonsd (that's the one I use on my iBook). I don't want it to "touch" my laptop-mode settings. > Your case with LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON is special. I will take a look at it, thanks for pointing (thanks to christophe barbe for pointing it also). > > I want it running *all the time* (regardless if I'm on battery or on AC > > adapter) because I use it to lower a bit the temperature of the hard > > disk. > But it decreases the lifetime of your hard disks servos due to frequent > spin ups and spin downs. I also know this, I've fine tuned all the daemons so that they don't make superfluous (cache-miss) reads that cause too frequent spin-ups. -- Kiko Private mail is preferred encrypted: http://www.pirispons.net/pgpkey.html
