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acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #502

Comment 502 for bug 59695

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Bart Samwel (bart-samwel) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Alexey Borzenkov wrote:
> Also, more on laptop-mode. In config file comments I've seen that it is
> disabled by default (and it seems devs tried to make it not so obvious
> how to really enable it), because it causes odd hangs on some computers.
> What sort of hangs are we dealing with? If this was about hangs when
> watching a movie, then the right answer would be not setting
> LM_READAHEAD to 3072 by default. It'd be a shame if laptop-mode was so
> hard-codedly disabled because of readahead problem. :-/

These were hard system hangs on Thinkpads. :-(