After reading a few threads about Ubuntu and all of the laptop hard
drive bugs, I am scared to install it on my brand new ThinkPad T61p.
Does anyone know if any of this has been fixed in the new version of
Ubuntu (7.10)? If not I will probably end up installing Gentoo, even
though I really like Ub
Opps, I forgot to add that my biggest concern is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695";>bug 59695 I tried to
search to see if Ubuntu 7.10 fixed this issue, but had no luck
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Hard drive spindown should be configurable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216
You received this bug notification beca
So if it is a BIOS setting, is any other distro of linux affected by
this bug?
Or does it mainly have to do with Ubuntu's way of managing drive power
on battery?
Concerning 59695:
Will enabling package laptop-mode-tools, and editting
/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf, as suggested in the 59695 b
Marki and Guy, thank you very much for all of the info.
I am in the middle of a research project and really do not have time to
look into all of this stuff (more than I already have), so I REALLY
appreciate the help.
My ThinkPad should be here within the next few weeks, so I am trying to
get ever
Guy, just out of curiously, how does one tell if the BIOS settings are
"sane"? I am just curious, because that would save me all the trouble.
I did notice people in the 59695 thread had ThinkPads and were having
issues, so I am assuming the worst case scenario (where I will have to
edit those few
ubuntu_demon, sorry! I am new around here and did not know how this
system worked.
I will now head over to the links you provided.
Thank you, and again I appologize!
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Hard drive spindown should be configurable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/17216
You received this bug notification because yo
