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.
so i googled around to figure out how to do this, as the command
"hal-stop-polling" doesn't exist in Debian Etch. i came across this
page, which describes how to achieve what PowerTOP suggests (under the
"cd-rom" heading):
http://wiki.teuwen.org/LaptopHp
so i made the changes to this file:
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi
and restarted dbus:
/etc/init.d/dbus restart
however, the storage.media_check_enabled property for my cd-rom is
still set to true. does anyone have any suggestions for how to fix
this?
i've attached my "20-storage-methods.fdi" file if that's any help. cheers,
Nick
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'm assuming you can just modify my drive name with yours and then place it in the appropriate place and then restart hal.
media-check-disable-storage_model_DVDRW_GWA4080MA.fdi.gz
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