Document Author: Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk)
Date created: January 2, 2004
Document Author: Bart Samwel (bart@samwel.tk)
Date created: January 2, 2004
laptop mode will automatically be started when you're on battery. For
your convenience, a tarball containing an installer can be downloaded at:
laptop mode will automatically be started when you're on battery. For
your convenience, a tarball containing an installer can be downloaded at:
To configure laptop mode, you need to edit the configuration file, which is
located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian-based systems, or in
To configure laptop mode, you need to edit the configuration file, which is
located in /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian-based systems, or in
--------------------CONFIG FILE BEGIN-------------------------------------------
# Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are
--------------------CONFIG FILE BEGIN-------------------------------------------
# Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are
# amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode.
MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'}
# Read-ahead, in kilobytes
READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'}
# amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode.
MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'}
# Read-ahead, in kilobytes
READAHEAD=${READAHEAD:-'4096'}
Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will
kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that
automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was
Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will
kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that
automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was