[PlanetCCRMA] acpi and 2.6.7

Matthew Allen Matthew Allen <mtallen@gmail.com>
Fri Nov 12 21:01:01 2004


On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:01:54 -0500, Rick B <zajelo3@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Matthew Allen wrote:
> >I think I am wearing out google.com/linux
>
> You need to see if you have laptop mode enabled. Do a "cat
> /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode" (no quotes) if it returns a 1 it's already on,
> if it returns a 0 you can turn it on by doing a " echo 1 >
> /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode". If you add that line to your
> "/etc/rc.d/rc.local" file it will also start laptop mode next time you
> reboot. Here's a link to what it does:

I dont think thats what I want. I have a feeling it may result in more
hard drive stress whille doing music/sound work and thereby cause
xruns. I more insterested in just exploring the built in acpi tools
(which includes a cpu throttler, and some other ineteresting stuff)

thanks for the help!
m.