Laptop Mode
September 3rd, 2004
Since version 2.6.6 of the linux kernel there has been the Laptop mode support, however, to use it some userland tools need to be installed. Laptop mode delays write opperations, this way the HD can sleep.
I’ve just installed it on my new laptop ( mac Powerbook G4 12″ ) and seems to work great, to install it I’ve just made a crapy ebuild, I won’t submit it to gentoo bugs because it is not neat and onlys work on PPC, to make it work under any other architecture the script on_ac_power should be replaced by a generic one, I’ve been to lazy to do it, this scripts returns 0 on AC and 1 on Battery.
The ebuild I made
Bulma Article About Laptop Mode
Laptop Mode Tools Homepage