From: Bart Samwel laptop-mode documentation updates --- Documentation/laptop-mode.txt | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/laptop-mode.txt~laptop-mode-2-doc-updates Documentation/laptop-mode.txt --- 25/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt~laptop-mode-2-doc-updates 2004-01-11 12:45:40.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt 2004-01-11 12:45:40.000000000 -0800 @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Contents * The details * Tips & Tricks * Control script +* ACPI integration * Monitoring tool @@ -105,14 +106,14 @@ both the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 series. Tips & Tricks ------------- -* Bartek Krania reports getting up to 50 minutes of extra battery life (on top +* Bartek Kania reports getting up to 50 minutes of extra battery life (on top of his regular 3 to 3.5 hours) using very aggressive power management (hdparm -B1) and a spindown time of 5 seconds (hdparm -S1). * You can spin down the disk while playing MP3, by setting the disk readahead to 8MB (hdparm -a 16384). Effectively, the disk will read a complete MP3 at once, and will then spin down while the MP3 is playing. (Thanks to Bartek - Krania.) + Kania.) Control script @@ -250,6 +251,10 @@ exit 0 --------------------CONTROL SCRIPT END-------------------------------------------- + +ACPI integration +---------------- + Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. _