-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is for hard drive spin down and swap control (delaying swap writes to save battery power on spun down disks). There is not really an interactive program that run.
You have restarted X since you made the configuration changes right...? What is the video card that you have in the laptop? lspci is your friend here. What driver is X using? Hint, look in the xorg.conf file. AFIK the VESA driver does not support the resolutions that are not 4:3. Mitchell Brown wrote: > Update: Tom, laptop-mode-tools is already installed. How do I use it? I > tried executing laptop-mode-tools, but its not there. > > On 10/30/06, *Tom Weniger* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 10/30/06, Mitchell Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > 1) 1024*768 - my laptop natively runs at 1280*800, yet, its not a > choice in > > the "Screen resolution" panel > > 2) The battery meter is stuck at 100%. It can accurately tell when > I'm > > plugged in, when I'm not, and when the screen opens and closes. > Suspend > > works, as does hibernation. Yet, when unplugged for over 45 > minutes, the > > battery meter remained at 100% - obviously false. > > > > If anyone has any clues on how to repair these malfunctions, I'd > be obliged. > > mb > > > > > Greetings Mitchell, > > 1) You can try to manually adjust the display resolution in the > xorg.conf file by adding the resolution to the section "Screen" and > verifying your display settings. > > 2) You can install the "laptop-mode tools" and follow the instructions > to adjust the power management of your laptop as well as hard disk > tuning among other things. > > HtH... > -- > Virtually, > Tom W > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > -- > pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF > 9091 C422 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFRq+3wRXgH3rKGfMRAmdjAJ9iyKJBu0euiHPim6Sm8gMdNzRDOgCglpTI 2QVGOmm64LEvG6FUZTkSet0= =EYgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
