laptop mode?

[William Hooper]

D. D. Brierton said:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 03:18, Dave Jones wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:59:42AM +0000, johntrichardson at charter.net
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In an earlier Fedoras (FC1?) there was a laptop mode.  That seems to
>>> be gone from FC3.
>>
>> Eh ?
>>
>>
>> (22:17:53:davej at dhcp83-103:linux-2.6.9)$ ll /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Oct 19 22:19 /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode
>>
>
> Well (on FC2) that file is indeed there but its value never changes from
> 0 regardless of whether the power lead is plugged in or I'm on batteries.

To quote the FC1 release notes:

To enable laptop mode, issue the following command:

echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode

To disable laptop mode, issue the following command:

echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode

-- 
William Hooper