Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 6/29/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi Jon. for me, the file is /sys/devices/platform/applesmc/position . i'm running 2.6.21.1+mactel on Debian Etch. -Nick Thanks Nick. That would _seem_ to be the file however it's jiberish. It's constantly changing without manual adjustment

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 29/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey guys, where do we see the screen brightness level in /{sys,proc}? Been playing around with it and that is a big power hog. I can lower power consumption by a couple watts and still have a readable screen (that puts me about even with what

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

Hey guys, where do we see the screen brightness level in /{sys,proc}? Been playing around with it and that is a big power hog. I can lower power consumption by a couple watts and still have a readable screen (that puts me about even with what Sheer is getting). I know your supposed to be able to s

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

Sven Anders ha scritto: > Samuli Seppänen schrieb: > > >> I haven't followed this thread previously, but I suppose you use the >> Powertop program just as I. If not, take a look at it, it's excellent. >> When the WLAN is disabled I can get my Macbook to wake up only about >> 130 times. ACPI

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

Samuli Seppänen schrieb: > I haven't followed this thread previously, but I suppose you use the > Powertop program just as I. If not, take a look at it, it's excellent. > When the WLAN is disabled I can get my Macbook to wake up only about > 130 times. ACPI gives an estimate of 2.8 hours of ba

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

Nick Hoffman ha scritto: > On 25/06/07, *Jon Grosshart* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > On 6/24/07, *Nick Hoffman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > 30 minutes of battery time in GNU/Linux? wowzers, > that's...well..

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 6/25/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there any other reason you use DIY Linux rather than, say, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc? which Apple laptop do you have? -Nick I'm just a control freak. I like to do things myself. I like to tinker. :-) I Distro hopped for years like alo

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 25/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/24/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > 30 minutes of battery time in GNU/Linux? wowzers, > that's...wellhorrible. are you using Linux From Scratch, or have you > built your own OS another way? > -Nick Yea, it's DIY

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 6/24/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 30 minutes of battery time in GNU/Linux? wowzers, that's...wellhorrible. are you using Linux From Scratch, or have you built your own OS another way? -Nick Yea, it's DIY Linux via pkgtools from Slackware. There's not too much else to d

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 12:41:32AM -0400, Jon Grosshart wrote: > devices and that function is there for broken firmware/devices... I've > learned to accept that I only get 30 minutes of battery time under linux. 60 > if it's completely idle... :-( > > And you guys wonder why I'm always so grumpy!!

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No. I never notice a change in power consumption. I just do it so it quits waking up my procs all the time (which doesn't necessarily translate as power saved). The hal devs even say that you really shouldn't be polling devices and that funct

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 6/23/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm still curious about you being able to run the command ``hal-stop-polling'' though, as it's simply not available to me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] grep -R hal-disable-polling /var/log/packages/ /var/log/packages/hal-0.5.9-i686-1:usr/bin/hal-dis

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran that command awhile back. The one powertop suggests. It wrote the > attached file to: > > /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVDRW_GWA4080MA.fdi > > See attached file for contents. It's just a generic xml file. I'

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 24/06/07, Jon Grosshart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/23/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this: > > Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0 > 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

On 6/23/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when you plug in a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in

[Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

hi guys. Intel's PowerTOP utility suggested this: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with: hal-stop-polling /dev/scd0 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a file browser when you plug in a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in. so i googled around to figure out how to do this, a