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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:55:04
Message-Id: 201008251154.25083.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging) by Alex Schuster
1 I wrote:
2
3 > Mick writes:
4
5 > > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:
6 > >
7 > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044
8 > >
9 > > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have
10 > > set up and p*sses me off. o_O
11 > >
12 > > As soon as KDE starts up (even when waking up from suspend to ram) it
13 > > resets the drives. I haven't found a way of telling it how to behave
14 > > (i.e. by respecting existing settings in hdparm).
15 >
16 > Argh, that's annoying. Thanks for the information. O well, first I
17 > setuid'ed hdparm to make it work as a user, then I reverted that back
18 > as I started it in /etc/init.d/local, and now I'm again setuid'ing it
19 > so I can set the settings from /etc/conf.d/hdparm in
20 > ~/.kde4/Autostart/.
21 >
22 > I filed a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248905
23 > You might want to vote for it so it gets some attention and will
24 > hopefully be fixed soon.
25
26 They say it's probably specific to Gentoo, so I filed this bug:
27 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334393
28
29 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>