Ubuntu versions

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Kristian Hermansen wrote:

> On 6/20/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> scott at scott-laptop:~$ laptop-detect
>> scott at scott-laptop:~$ echo $?
>> 1
>
> So, you don't have laptop-mode package installed, and your
> laptop-detect seems to think you DO NOT have a laptop.  Are you sure
> the power management is due to being a laptop?  It could just be
> standard power management settings for desktops.  Wonder why it didn't
> detect a laptop.  You can see what laptop-mode does for yourself, it
> is just a shell script...
>
>> ls /etc/default
>
> Right.  The config file is not there since you don't have that package
> installed.
>
>> 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.
>
> OK, chmodding them may work.  However, did you try using a -server
> kernel rather than a -generic?
>
> $ sudo aptitude install linux-server
> -- 
> Kristian Hermansen
>

Doing the linux-server kernel install now.  Will report back in a couple 
of weeks with results.

Thanks for the idea.

Scott

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.