Laptop battery

[Ricardo Teixeira]

I started laptop-mode, i have it installed but i don know  if it
starts when linux starts... must look in to it and see if it
works. it doesent seem to because i keep seeing small writes
every minute... ill keep posting the results. thanks.

BTW, how can in know if its running or not?
the weird part is that in some cases i keep having a small disk
activity but in the cdrom, even if there is no cd inside.


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have a look in /usr/share/doc/laptop-mode/ for its explantion. (
you can read .txt.gz files with zless laptop-mode.txt.gz )

does anyone know if it is possible / sensible to diable some
logging to make this work better? or a way to make firefox keep
everything in ram? browsing the web should not really require any
hard drive access.

also, putting stacks of ram in the machine and diabling swap
might help.

sam

heimo wrote:
> What you want is laptop-mode (it's in universe, you need that in
> /etc/apt/sources.list)
> http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories
> (lots of other good advice there too!)
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>     sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools
> --------------------
> 
>
> If you have ACPI enabled in laptops BIOS, this should be able
to spin
> down your laptops hard disk and do writes in batches. This
approach has
> caveats - you risk losing some data if you lose power / crash or
> something like that. You need to read
> Code:
> --------------------
>     man laptop_mode
> --------------------
>  I don't know if it enables itself, so
> Code:
> --------------------
>     sudo /etc/init.d/laptop-mode start
> --------------------
>  may be neccessary.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask for more help, if neccessary.
>
> EDIT: added -sudo
>
> -
>
>



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