[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[James McKenzie]

Do you have to recompile the kernel to enable laptop_mode?

I know about the noasync in fstab, but it tends not to work with ext3 
file systems with RH 8.

James McKenzie


Behdad Esfahbod wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Stephan Herhut wrote:
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>>Am Mo, den 10.11.2003 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod um 17:23:
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>>>>Seems you know about it then;)
>>>>So, does it work with ext3 as my disk spins up periodically, even if it
>>>>is enabled. I am using ACPI, so I have to enable it manually at the
>>>>moment ( I havent dealed with acpid yet). Or is there some kind of howto?
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>>>Yes, it turns mine off with ext3 pretty good.  All you need to do
>>>is to add a line to /etc/sysctl.conf like this:
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>>>vm.laptop_mode = 1
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>>Well, mine keeps on spinning. Every 5 seconds the hd light flashed up
>>just a little bit but I have no idea what program does this. Any idea
>>how to figure out?
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>5 second is the flush time for ext3.  Do laptop_mode, and set all
>your partitions as noasync in fstab, should do the job.
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>>Thanks
>>Stephan
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