RE: debian on laptops
On 01-Mar-2001 joe willson wrote:
> i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's
> annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my
> harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my
> cpu! i think this is cause by cron loading up, so how can i turn this off.
>
> second thing is since i don't have suspend working plus i have to boot into
> windows sometimes i have to boot linux a few times a day. the problem is
> fsck starts scanning the entire partition when it reaches max mount count....
> so is it a good idea to turn this off?
>
Hi, let's get you to a happier place (-:
a) apt-get install task-laptop
this will give you most of the tools needed to have a happy laptop
this includes APM support (power management), anacron, and a few other tools
b) join debian-laptop. Just like debian-user, but only for laptop people
c) grab the laptop howto by Werner Heuser. Great read and discusses Debian
issues as well.
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