Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Notebook disk spindown | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:42:49 +0100 (BST) |
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Jamie Lokier writes: > With laptops, people are willing > to assume the RAM is reliable -- accidentally pulling the plug out won't > lose the data.
But a buggy apm implementation and the battery running down can.
(and I've seen my Thinkpad 380XD with RH's 2.2.14-5.0 kernel and RH's apmd run itself dead. Kill apmd and it'll do the right thing and suspend, then hibernate. And no, I haven't even attempted to debugg it yet). _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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