Laptop battery

[Ricardo Teixeira]

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Santoro <Simon.Santoro at poste.it>
To: ctrler at zmail.pt,  Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:00:38 +0200
Subject: Re: Laptop battery

> Ricardo Teixeira wrote:
> > I started laptop-mode, i have it installed but i don know  if it
> > starts when linux starts...
> 
> if you have a walid symlink in /etc/rc2.d/S20laptop-mode it
should be 
> started.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> are you on battery?
> have a look at /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf and tweak it
to your
> needs.
> 
> > BTW, how can in know if its running or not?
> 
> cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
> if this is != 0 laptop_mode should be enabled.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> how do you know that?
> 
because i see the cdrom light blinking. :)