Ubuntu
laptop-mode-tools package

  1. Bug #244838
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 244838

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ceg (ceg) wrote : Re: laptop-mode needs to be activated in /etc/default/acpi-support

Yes, I think you are right. Since the laptop-mode messing has fortunately been removed from acpi-support the setting is obsoleted there and serves only for confusion.

Alexey wrote:

It's interesting to know that current acpi-support in Debian unstable (1.109-5) has this comment in /etc/default/acpi-support:

# Note: to enable "laptop mode" (to spin down your hard drive for longer
# periods of time), install the laptop-mode-tools package and configure
# it in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf.
#
# (Note to upgraders: earlier versions of the acpi-support package contained
# an option to enable/disable laptop mode. This option has never actually
# worked, and for that reason it has been removed.)
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/250938/comments/5)

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This issue can be fixed when laptop-mode-tools and acpi-support from Debian is merged.

package laptop-mode-tools:
/etc/init.d/laptop-mode: drop sourcing of /etc/default/acpi-support (another packages conffile)

package acpi-support:
/etc/default/acpi-support: remove the ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE setting and don't supress the above comment.