Fwd: powertop on Inspiron 6400

[Török Edvin]

[oops, I replied privately instead to the list]

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From: Török Edvin <edwintorok at gmail.com>
Date: May 15, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: powertop on Inspiron 6400
To: bluebird <bluebird at mnet-online.de>


On 5/15/07, bluebird <bluebird at mnet-online.de> wrote:
> Yeah, that's probably your cdrom drive.
>
> Instead of disabling hal completely try(eg when entering battery mode):
>         hal-disable-polling --device /dev/cdrom

Thanks, this works too.
 Its /dev/hdc however here, hal doesn't recognize /dev/cdrom despite
of a symlink existing from /dev/cdrom to hdc.

Thanks,
--Edwin