Package: acpi-support Version: 0.109-5 Severity: normal Dear maintainer,
The apm level of my harddrive is set to 254, as hdparm -I /dev/sda reports. After a resume from suspend (using the KLaptop utility) the apm level is 128 (the default setting). If I then try $ /etc/init.d/acpi-support restart this does not work. When I issue /etc/init.d/acpi-support stop and /etc/init.d/acpi-support start the apm value as read from hdparm -I /dev/sda is back at 254 I thought to report this since values of 128 and below cause clicking sound form the unloading of the HDD heads on the ramp. I think KLaptop uses acpi-support, but I'm not entirely sure how to check this, so I filed the bug here. Secondly, I want to ask why apm level is still set to 128 when on battery? Is this to safeguard the disk from sudden movements? In my case (probably quite irrelevant to report this individual case, but still) the HDD is a Hitachi Travelstar 7K200 and the white paper reports the following: apm 192-254: active idle mode, 50% less power apm 128-191: low power idle mode, 60% less power, unload heads apm 1-127: standby apm 0 or 255: aborted (?) so for power saving when on battery, 128 is not needed. kind regards, take care, Steven -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages acpi-support depends on: ii acpi-support-base 0.109-5 scripts for handling base ACPI eve ii acpid 1.0.6-10 Utilities for using ACPI power man ii dmidecode 2.9-1 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii finger 0.17-12 user information lookup program ii hdparm 8.6-1 tune hard disk parameters for high ii laptop-detect 0.13.6 attempt to detect a laptop ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii powermgmt-base 1.30 Common utils and configs for power ii vbetool 1.0-3 run real-mode video BIOS code to a ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+3 X server utilities Versions of packages acpi-support recommends: ii dbus 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal 0.5.11-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer ii nvclock 0.8b3-1 Allows you to overclock your nVidi ii pm-utils 1.1.2.3-1 utilities and scripts for power ma ii radeontool 1.5-5 utility to control ATI Radeon back -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
