Re: GRX616

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Seems that I'm finally getting things to work.  Anyone can tell 
> > me how to set the frame rate for X?  currently it seems to be 
> > working 60Hz, but hardware supports much more that that, so any 
> > helps would be appreciated.
> 
> If you don't use an external CRT display, you probably don't care about
> refresh rates. LCD displays in digital mode (what your laptop must use)
> have a fixed refresh rate and don't care about what X asks for. At least
> that's how I understood it, someone corrects me if I'm wrong.

Reasonable.

> > One more, how should I set my hard disk to spin down?  I use 
> > hdparm, but the fact is that my hard disk has a small activity 
> > every few minutes, don't know why.  It even happens in init 1 
> > single user mode.  Should it be the ext journal?  What should I 
> > do?

Obviously I meant every few seconds.

> It can be the access time trick (use option noatime for your ext2/3
> partitions). It can be the swap partition (turn it off, but I 
hope you
> know what you do). It can be the ext3 journal (but I don't know much
> about it).
Well,  I have already done the atime trick.  I have absolutely no 
swap usage.  It should be journal.  So, how much time do you 
recommaned to set for spin down?  1 minute, 10?  I mean on 
battery ofcourse.

> > A silly question:  Do changing the LCD light, *really* reduce the 
> > power consumption?
> 
> I think I remember it does. The screen accounts for about 40% in the
> total power consumption (as measured on my laptop) so I'd expect the
> brightness to have a significant impact on battery duration.

Then, why the "current rate" of battery discharging does not 
change (significantly)?  When I do a kernel compile, I see the 
huge difference there.

> > Would someone please send me his/her /etc/acpi/* scripts?
> 
> See there:
> http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/vaio/#files

Thanks.  Would have a look

> Hope that helps.

Definitely does.

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Behdad Esfahbod		11 Mordad 1382, 2003 Aug 2 
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