[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 100, Issue 21

[jose tav]

Hi Tony, thanks for taking the time to reply to my call. Your tips and suggestions are very useful. I just did a quick look into those commands and checked the mentionaded swap file (which shows 0 bytes). Well, at the moment I am running my laptop with its internal HD drive. I will need to turn the system off and boot from the flash drive, but since I did re-partion my flash drive I need to re-install Lubuntu 11.10 (previous was Lubuntu 10.04) I will keep you post. Thanks again. José

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>    1. Granola & Laptop_Mode_Tools or
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>    2. Re: Laptop_Mode_tools in Lubuntu?
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> From: jose tav <j_tav at yahoo.com>
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> Subject: [conspire] Granola & Laptop_Mode_Tools or just
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> This is the message I thought, posted last night... .
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> I am trying to get more time usage out of my laptop's
> battery. I used to get 2.5 hours out of it, but now ... 1.5
> hours at best. I installed Lubuntu on a 32GB USB flash
> drive, (I like Lubuntu), It seems the internal HD is always
> spinning, I would like to have off while running from the
> USB flash drive.
> 
> Last night I installed the free <a href="http://download.cnet.com/Granola/9241-2094_4-11891606.html?messageID=10664359">
> Granola </a>"> it seems to be helping but not by
> much. Then i heard about the  <a href="http://samwel.tk/laptop_mode/packages/ubuntu">
> Laptop_Mode_Tools </a>. I tried unsuccessfully to find
> 'ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE= '. I did try grep (grep -o
> ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=) to find it, please, someone can tell me
> what is the correct way to run the command?. I want to check
> the settings of Ubuntu Natty and Lubuntu,
>  I don't think I should have both on my laptop at the same
> time. I am afraid to created some conflicts between them.
> Your feedback is highly appreciated.
> 
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> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:16:20 -0700
> From: Tony Godshall <tony at of.net>
> To: j_tav at yahoo.com
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> Subject: Re: [conspire] Laptop_Mode_tools in Lubuntu?
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> > Quoting jose tav (j_tav at yahoo.com):
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> >> I am trying to get more time usage out of my
> laptop battery. I used to
> >> get 2.5 hours out of it, but now ... 1.5 hours at
> best. I installed
> >> Lubuntu on a 32GB flash drive, (I like Lubuntu),
> It seems the internal
> >> HD is always spinning, I would like to have it off
> while running from
> >> the USB flash drive.
> 
> what do mount and cat /proc/swaps say?  Is your
> spinning hard drive
> mentioned in either?  If you've confirmed there's no
> active use of
> the drive by the above, you might look at hdparm:
> 
>  -B   set Advanced Power Management setting
> (1-255)
>  -S   set standby (spindown) timeout
>  -y   put drive in standby mode
>  -Y   put drive to sleep
>  -Z   disable Seagate auto-powersaving mode
> 
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