[ltp] Aggressive battery diagnostics on T42p, should I return these?

[Igor V. Rafienko]

on Apr 5, 2006, 09:27, Chris Bainbridge wrote:

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> If you have a radeon card, I've heard that whether or not you use the 
> ATI fglrx drivers can make a difference.


both radeon and fglrx drivers allow to set the X300 card into several 
power consumption modes: rovclock / aticonfig.


> I used to have the hd spin down after a few minutes. But it takes ages
> to spin back up again, and I noticed these delays much more than any
> battery time extension.


Incidentally, spinning the hd down manually (hdparm -Y /dev/sda) works 
fine, but spinning it back up again is impossible (basically my 
filesystems become unreadable. The behaviour is consistent/reproduceable). 
Does anyone else experience that?





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