[ltp] Fedora on Thinkpads

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, James McKenzie wrote:

> Do you have to recompile the kernel to enable laptop_mode?

No.  It's enabled in Fedora kernels.

> I know about the noasync in fstab, but it tends not to work with ext3
> file systems with RH 8.
>
> James McKenzie
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> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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> >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?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>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:
> >>>
> >>>vm.laptop_mode = 1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>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?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >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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