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Laptops, power management, and UbuntuLaptops, power management, and UbuntuPosted Nov 8, 2007 23:47 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467)In reply to: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu by kevinbsmith Parent article: Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu
> state: closed > yes > Laptop mode disabled, active. That is hilarious. Laptop mode has always been a questionable hack, at least the one shipped by Ubuntu. At one point Ubuntu was shipping both laptop_mode and laptop_mode_tools, which were contradictory even though their packages didn't claim to conflict. On my PowerBook (where the brilliant firmware cannot be blamed) laptop mode would spin my disk down after *1 second* of inactivity. No joke. Then the disk would spin up again right away. The drain on the battery was tremendous. I had to purge laptop_mode (or was it laptop_mode_tools) and reboot the machine to make it stop doing that.
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Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu Posted Nov 13, 2007 10:39 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link] Ubuntu has not shipped laptop-mode, ever. It has never even entered the main repository. Of course, you are welcome to install arbitrary packages from universe and tweak them to suit your needs, but you must also take responsibility for the results.
Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu Posted Nov 13, 2007 15:42 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] Ubuntu shipped laptop-mode in the "main" component (aka the official, supported component) in Warty, Hoary, and Breezy. That's three times, not "never" as you say.
Laptops, power management, and Ubuntu Posted Nov 13, 2007 16:02 UTC (Tue) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link] You're right, I didn't look back that far (over two years now). That laptop-mode is an Ubuntu-specific tool which is long obsolete and will be removed from universe as well. In any case, it was removed from main when laptop-mode-tools was added (in 6.06), so it remains true that Ubuntu did not in fact ship them both.
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