[ltp] Making an A22p appear inactive?

[Richard]

Thanks for your reply.

What I'm really after, more than anything else is a way that, once the
screensaver kicks in to blank the screen, I can set the fan to turn off.

My fan never turns off, even if the machine is just sitting there,
processing nothing, (unless I suspend the laptop).

Are you saying that changing the power control mode will allow the BIOS to
automatically shutdown the fan except when needed?

(As for configuration, I have purely Linux Mandrake 8.1 I'd usually expect
to do BIOS configuration via a reboot and enter CMOS setup, although I
understand that tpctl is an easier way to do this)

Regards

Richard


On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Adam Benjamin wrote:

> > When the machine enters pretend-to-be-asleep mode, I'm aiming for:
> >
> > 	*The processor to keep running (perhaps at lower rate?)
> > 	*The modem to remain online, if it currently is
> > 	*Screen off (this can be done by the screensver)
> > 	*HDD spindown (done by hdparm)
> > 	*Processor FAN off - how do I do this?
>
> Sounds like you *don't* want to suspend - ie. turn that off.  Then you
> can set the other options for your power utilization mode.  The
> details of how you do that are different depending on what OSes you
> have available to you.
>
> I'm currently running a 770E with RH7.2, with a dos partition in order
> to run the PS2.exe in order to configure my bios.
>
> So if I were doing all of the above, I would use the PS2.exe to turn
> off anything that would cause the machine to suspend (perhaps
> including disabling suspend-on-lid-close) and then I would change my
> power utilization mode to low.  That could actually be done while in
> linux using tpctl stuff - but the disabling the suspension would have
> to be done within DOS using tpctl.  (I don't think tpctl will do that
> kind of config within linux - but I could be wrong.)
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> Adam Benjamin
>
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