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[Scott Ehrlich]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Kristian Hermansen wrote:

> On 6/20/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Has anyone tried a server version on a laptop?   As I think I'd mentioned
>> before, I'm using may laptop at home as a server.   The only way I've been
>> able to prevent the hard drive, and maybe the NIC, from powering down, is
>> to establish a cron job every 12 hours - 1100 for an updatedb, and 2300
>> for an ntp query.
>
> You should be able to disable or uninstall the "laptop mode" functionality.
>
> $ aptitude search laptop
>
> You probably have laptop-detect, laptop-mode, and laptop-mode-utils
> installed.  If laptop-detect has a return status of 0, it thinks you
> have a laptop.
>
> $ laptop-detect
> $ echo $?
>
> Next thing to do is disable it if you like.  See what's in the config
> below and change to "no" if you want to disable the settings...
>
> $ cat /etc/default/laptop-mode
>
> There are more options, but let me know if non of these work for you...
>
>> I wonder if the server-based 7.04 would view my laptop (Compaq Armada
>> m700) differently and NOT spin down the drive and power off the nic?
>> Or, even if it was a different laptop, having the same events occur?
>
> Even if the above does not work, you can also change the scripts
> manually in /etc/acpi/ such that your power management acts exactly as
> you wish...
> --

Well, for what it's worth:

  sudo aptitude search laptop
Password:
p   education-laptop                - DebianEdu laptop packages
p   klaptopdaemon                   - battery monitoring and management 
for lapt
i   laptop-detect                   - attempt to detect a laptop
p   laptop-mode                     - laptop-mode aims to reduce the power 
consu
i   laptop-mode-tools               - Scripts to spin down hard drive and 
save p
p   laptop-net                      - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet
p   laptop-net-doc                  - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet 
- docu
p   laptop-netconf                  - network detection and configuration 
progra
scott at scott-laptop:~$ laptop-detect
scott at scott-laptop:~$ echo $?
1

ls /etc/default
acpid         console-setup  icecast2~                        rsync
acpi-support  cupsys         klogd                            snmpd
alsa          dbus           linux-restricted-modules-common  ssh
apmd          devpts         locale                           syslogd
apport        gdm            ntp                              tmpfs
avahi-daemon  hal            ntpdate                          useradd
bluetooth     halt           nvidia-kernel
bootlogd      hplip          pmi
brltty        icecast2       rcS


As for /etc/acpi, I chmod 000'd all the scripts.

Any other ideas?  It would be nice to not have to use cron to keep the 
system in server mode vs laptop mode.

Thanks.

Scott

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