Le samedi 19 août 2006 20:45, Tom Allison a écrit : > I'm trying to get my thinkpad notebook to actually behave like a notebook > again. I didn't for a while because the battery was shot -- now I have a > new one. > > But the standard kernel ACPI provided doesn't work at all under this > machine and there is no APM support available. > > I've been spending about a week trying to build my own kernel with apmd > support baked in and have made some progress. The screen can go blank. > > But the hard drive refuses to spindown for more than a few seconds, if > that. It was originally configured as EXT3 and remounted as EXT2 so I > would expect the journaling to stop -- this was a problem with previous > builds on this machine. > > But it's still no good. Spindown is immediately met with a spinup and > sometimes followed by another spindown ... 5 - 30 seconds later -- spinup > again. And then I get into this really vicious cycle of > up/down/up/down.... Really not doing my hard drive any good. > > Any suggestions besides buying another notebook? > > And when it comes to another note book --- It's either a T60 or X60 but I'm > not sure which will work more "out of the box" with Debian.
Do you have laptop-mode-tools and laptop-detect installed ? When you unplug the power cord, it puts your laptop in a power saving mode : - change the mode of your cpu scaling - change the frequency of ext3 journal syncing to disk - probably other things around acpi
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