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11 Jun
2002
11 Jun
'02
09:22
Aren't things like harddrive spindowns bios controlled?
The monitor controls are partly BIOS and partly KDE. Standby and suspend sorts of things are apmd. My laptop hard disk has fine grain power control which is set by an IBM utility. I can set the coarse grain "spin up" and "spin down" sort of stuff in hdparm. Bit of a mess really... -- There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't