On lun., 2013-07-01 at 20:48 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > Is the AC plugged when you check? Also, check if laptop-mode or other > > tool doesn't interfere here. > > With AC all is fine and the drive does not spin down. On battery it > spins down. laptop-mode-tools is not installed. > > The problem seems to be interaction with pm-utils: from > /var/log/pm-powersave.log I see that when I unplug AC pm-utils > immediately runs /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/95hdparm-apm, which sets > "APM_level = 127" on /dev/sda. > > xfce4-power-manager depends on upower which depends on pm-utils, so > this isn't some unusual package interaction, these packages are always > going to be installed together.
Yeah well, there's not much we can do unfortunately. We need upower (not pm-utils) and we can't really edit pm-utils files. It should be possible to disable disk spin down in pm-utils manually. The checkbox in xfpm is only about what xfpm does. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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