| 1.52 - Thu Oct 8 14:12:23 IST 2009 |
| * Initialize DEBUG to 0 by default. THanks to Matthijs Kooijman for pointing |
| it out. |
| * Add an option to completely disable ethernet devices when on battery. |
| * Introduce hooks to enable debug mode for individual modules |
| * Use iwconfig to determine device type for iwlwifi devices also |
| * Collect the correct exit code for iwconfig execution. |
| * Use iwconfig in wireless-iwl-power. Thanks to Darren Hoo for spotting it |
| * Handle spaces in mount point names. Thanks to Louis Simard for the patch |
| * Clarify about Global Debug mode and Module Specific Debug mode. |
| * Fix incorrect variable reference in video-out module. Thanks to Hans Werner |
| for noticing that. |
| |
| 1.51 - Tue Sep 1 20:48:29 IST 2009 |
| * Add option to blacklist usb devices by their device id. |
| Thanks to ich@phuk.ath.cx for the patch |
| * Trigger timer change for power mgmt by doing a device open/close |
| The open/close operation can fail if the audio device is busy. |
| Since this failure is non-fatal (worst case is that the timer changes |
| don't get activated), we don't bother if it was successful or not. |
| * Add support for EeePC FSB Control. Thanks to James Rayner |
| * Update iwlwifi power modes. Thanks to Clemens Buchacher |
| See Debian BTS: #540639 |
| * Use the standard pm-hibernate script from pm-utils for hibernation |
| See Debian BTS: #541447 |
| * Check if wireless device is disabled before attempting to power configure it |
| Thanks to Clemens Buchacher. See Debian BTS: #541997 |
| * On speed change, an ethernet device can lose connectivity. Document that in |
| the config file |
| |
| 1.50 - 24 July 2009 |
| * Ship pm-utils hooks in /usr/lib/ and not in /etc/pm/ |
| Distributions will always want to have customized settings in /etc |
| and default upstream settings in /usr/lib. See LP: #384875 |
| * Fix incorrect explanation of Intel HDA Power Savings. See Debian |
| BTS: #532733 |
| * Don't clutter screen with print messages. |
| * Add patch from Mulyadi Santosa that adds ability to lm-profiler to show |
| read/write frequency of each collected program. Thank you. |
| * Enhance usb-autosuspend module to be executed under conditions. Also explain |
| the weirdness of broken usb drivers. Fixes Debian Bug #535051 |
| * Do the test comparision of integeres using string operators. Fixes Debian |
| Bug #535650 |
| * Run pidof with the -x Script Mode switch. Thanks Matthijs Kooijman |
| * Disconnect descriptors when backgrounding a script. Thanks Matthijs Kooijman |
| * Add option to run in shell debug mode |
| * Add a spec file to generate an RPM package |
| |
| 1.49 - 03 June 2009 |
| * Update runlevel priority to 99. This is require to ensure that we |
| start after hald. See LP #369807 |
| * Reload acpid on restart. Thanks Wido. |
| * Handle all power management daemons (apmd,pbbuttonsd,pmud) |
| * Allow custom timeout values to be set for Intel HDA Cards |
| * Handle Intel HDA powersaving in multiple modes |
| * Add syslog logging functionality. Fixes LP #370005 |
| * Fix shell syntax error in laptop_mode. Fixes Debian Bug #528835 |
| * Add check with iwconfig when determining a ipw* based wirelss |
| device. Fixes: LP #369113 |
| * Explicitly commit messages to stdout/stderr. This way, user can filter |
| irrelevant messages. |
| |
| 1.48 - 06 April 2009 |
| * Fix udevinfo calls. See Debian BTS #522043 |
| * Laptops usually have only a single ethernet device, usually being the |
| first one, referred as eth0. |
| * Don't hard code ethernet configuration to 100MBit speed. |
| * Restore ethernet speed to MAX_SPEED when back ON_AC. See Debian BTS |
| #519426 |
| * Don't throttle ethernet when on AC power |
| * Restore auto-negotiation and speed, one at a time |
| * Create the pm/sleep.d directory when DESTDIR is given |
| * udevadm info (or udevinfo) output has changed in version 140 |
| * Handle friendly names for ethernet speed |
| * Handle udev versions in different formats |
| * Reliably get ethernet speed |
| * Restore ethernet speed throttling in both situations |
| * Bump the version to 1.48 in laptop_mode |
| * Proper check for Hal Polling. Thanks Vincent Panel |
| |
| 1.47 - 26 January 2008 |
| |
| * Fix typo in usb-autosuspend module, see Debian BTS #513078. |
| * Support ext4 file system. The mount options on these file systems are now |
| adapted for laptop mode as well. |
| |
| 1.46 - 25 January 2008 |
| |
| * iwl4965 driver has been replaced by iwlagn in Linux 2.6.27. Add support |
| for this. See Debian BTS #502022. |
| * Prefer PMU over APM power information when available. (APM emulation adds |
| a delay, which causes incorrect actions.) |
| * Add intel-hda-powersave module, to support Intel HDA audio chipset power |
| saving mode. |
| * Improve comments in hal-polling.conf, and change default for AC so that |
| hal polling stays enabled on AC. See Debian BTS #495364. |
| * Add module usb-autosuspend, based on a patch contributed by Ritesh Raj |
| Sarraf. See Debian BTS #506839. |
| * Improved error reporting in lcd-brightness module. See Debian BTS #507640. |
| * Fixed verbose output mode. LM_VERBOSE was inverted, which caused a lot |
| of output to remain hidden. See Debian BTS #510294. |
| * Set sched_mc_power_savings to 2 instead of 1, for more power savings |
| (see http://lwn.net/Articles/312230). Contributed by Ritesh Raj Sarraf. |
| * Include integration with pm-utils so that hardware settings are re-applied |
| on resume from suspend/hibernate. See Debian BTS #481766. |
| * Use a different method to determine X displays and authorizations in the |
| dpms-standby module. The old method depended on w -hs output, which was |
| very unreliable. |
| * Add battery-level-polling module, which allows systems with unreliable |
| ACPI battery events to use battery level dependent features such as |
| auto-hibernate and the disabling of data loss sensitive features when the |
| battery runs low. |
| * Relax permissions on most files installed by install.sh. We now give |
| read/execute permissions to other users as well for the config files and |
| executables, since there's no sensitive info in the files. |
| |
| 1.45 - 15 July 2008 |
| |
| * Cleanup of install.sh, contributed by Alon Bar-Lev. |
| |
| 1.44 -- 15 July 2008 |
| |
| * Use POSIX compliant call to "head" in lm-profiler. |
| * Support for DESTDIR and other configuration options in install.sh, so that |
| package managers can use this installer. |
| * Strip non-numeric suffixes from kernel minor version number. (See Debian |
| BTS #488950.) |
| * Remove spurious error message on machines that don't have |
| /sys/class/power_supply. See Debian BTS #490167. |
| * Fix incorrect path to laptop-mode.conf in the laptop-mode.conf(8) manual |
| page. See Debian BTS #488261. |
| * Add sched-mc-power-savings module, to control the Linux kernel process |
| scheduler's multi-core power saving mode. Contributed by Ritesh Raj |
| Sarraf, see Debian BTS #490587. |
| * Add video-out module to selectively disable video outputs depending on |
| the power mode. |
| * Fix dpms-standby module so that it actually detects the displays. |
| |
| 1.43 -- 22 June 2008 |
| |
| * Don't use temp file in init script, that doesn't work if /tmp is mounted |
| readonly. (See Debian BTS #480946.) |
| * Fix IPW2100 power management so that power management mode stays enabled |
| even on AC. If we don't do this, we can't control the transmit power at |
| all because we let the chipset handle it. (See Debian BTS #481180.) |
| * Replace *_ENABLE_HAL_POLLING settings by *_DISABLE_HAL_POLLING. More |
| intuitive that way. The old settings were also interpreted in reverse. |
| The backward compatibility layer *fixes that* because it was a bug, so |
| behaviour will change for 1.42 installations as well. (See Debian BTS |
| #482307.) |
| * Get rid of bashism in laptop-mode module. |
| * Write all output to $OUTPUT in ac97-powersave module. |
| * Remove spurious output in main laptop_mode script. |
| * Remove spurious output in bluetooth module. |
| * Minor optimization of inner loop in main laptop_mode script. |
| * Add intel-sata-powermgmt module for enabling Aggressive Link Power |
| Management on Intel AHCI compliant SATA controllers. |
| * Add ethernet module to optimize ethernet power usage. |
| * Performance optimizatons throughout: remove subshells, avoid output |
| instead of throwing it away. (Thanks to Omair Eshkenazi for suggestions.) |
| * Coding style improvements throughout. (Thanks to Omair Eshkenazi for |
| patches.) |
| * Remove bashism in lm-profiler (See Debian BTS #480606.) |
| |
| 1.42 -- 12 May 2008 |
| |
| * Remove "echo -e" bashism in lm-profiler. |
| * Allow different names for AC adapter in /sys/class/power_supply. |
| * Decrease startup priority, because we definitely need to start after HAL |
| now. |
| * Add "hal-polling" module to control HAL polling of CD/DVD drives. (Taken |
| from powertop tips.) |
| * Add "bluetooth" module to disable bluetooth in battery mode. (Taken from |
| powertop tips.) |
| |
| 1.41 -- 22 April 2008 |
| |
| * Rename core module to laptop-mode. Files with the name "core" were cleaned |
| up a bit too diligently by package manager helper scripts such as |
| dh_clean. |
| * Add missing assignment to ACTIVATE_WITH_POSSIBLE_DATA_LOSS in the path |
| where ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC was set and the computer was on AC power. |
| * Add support for energy_* in sysfs battery interface. This adds support for |
| batteries which report their energies in mWh instead of mAh (which was |
| already supported through the charge_* interface). |
| |
| 1.40 -- 15 April 2008 |
| |
| * Add support for getting lid button state from HAL instead of from |
| /proc/acpi. |
| * Sanity check -- battery levels of 0 are interpreted as errors and do not |
| cause auto-hibernation. |
| * Improved checking for presence of ACPI batteries, so that absent batteries |
| do not cause auto-hibernation. |
| * Support /sys/class/power_supply interface to determine battery levels. |
| * Added generic support for configuration file swapping, in the form of the |
| module "configuration-file-control". The old syslog configuration control |
| feature is deprecated, removed from the default config file, and removed |
| from the manual page (except for a section mentioning that it is |
| deprecated). By default the new module has settings to support syslogd, |
| syslog-ng and rsyslogd. |
| * Laptop mode was not run when the enabled/disabled state changed, but none |
| of the other states changed. This was incorrect, because esp. the config |
| files should be restored to their non-laptop-mode-tools variants when |
| laptop mode tools is stopped. |
| * Add the module "wireless-iwl-power" for setting the power levels for |
| Intel 3945 and 4965 wireless adapters when using the iwlwifi drivers. |
| * Moved CONTROL_START_STOP to start-stop-programs.conf, and the code into |
| a separate module. |
| * Moved auto-hibernation settings to auto-hibernate.conf. |
| * Moved terminal blanking settings into terminal-blanking.conf, and the code |
| into a separate module. |
| * Moved CPU frequency settings to cpufreq.conf, and the code into a separate |
| module. |
| * Moved LCD brightness settings to lcd-brightness.conf, and the code into a |
| separate module. |
| * Moved DPMS standby settings to dpms-standby.conf, and the code into a |
| separate module. |
| * Moved hdparm functionality to hdparm module (config remains in main |
| config file). |
| * Moved core laptop_mode functionality to core module (config remains in |
| config file). |
| * laptop-mode.conf(8) manual page split up by module; updated to include all |
| modules (because some modules were not documented yet). |
| * All manual pages updated to correct standards: file names in italics, |
| config values in bold. |
| * Converted all scripts to use /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash. This should |
| yield performance improvements on systems that use a non-bash shell. |
| Tested using dash on Ubuntu. |
| * Added support for starting/stopping services by service name to the |
| start-stop-programs module. That's a lot more user friendly than having to |
| create symlinks in directories. |
| * Added the USE_RELATIME option, which causes laptop mode tools to remount |
| file systems using "relatime" instead of "noatime". |
| * Changed default maximum CPU frequency on battery to "fastest", to satisfy |
| the "race to idle" principle. |
| |
| 1.36 -- 2 March 2008 |
| |
| * Support /sys/class/power_supply interface to determine power state. |
| * Fix incorrect workaround description for DPMS settings in the config |
| file. Replaced it by a reference to the manual page. |
| * Change default CPU frequency governor on AC power to "ondemand". It works |
| just as well as "performance" these days, setting the governor to |
| "performance" just wastes a lot of power. |
| * Change some output redirection which was causing drive capability checking |
| to fail in some situations. Kudos go to Christoph Lange for the fix! |
| |
| 1.35 -- 18 November 2007 |
| |
| * Set HD power management values to 254 instead of 255. Some hard drives |
| go into "no power management" mode only on 254, while 255 yields some |
| kind of default that you don't want. |
| * Listen on ACPI events ac_adapter.* instead of just ac_adapter. This will |
| catch more events, required for some laptops. |
| * Give better error messages when "laptop_mode status" is called by a |
| non-root user. |
| * Install laptop-mode.conf world-readable by default. It contains no |
| sensitive information and it is required by "laptop_mode status" when |
| it is run as a non-root user. |
| * Properly remove temporary file created in init script. |
| * Properly log output in init script. |
| * Fix error in lm-profiler.conf manual page. |
| * Move /var/run/laptop-mode-* to /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/*. |
| * Use blockdev --setfra instead of --setra. This is a new option in |
| util-linux (actually, util-linux-ng) version 2.13, which makes readahead |
| setting work on 2.4 linux kernels. On 2.6 --setfra and --setra are |
| equivalent. |
| * Remove LSB dependency. If it's not present, normal console output will |
| be generated by the init script, and it will use logger to write the |
| output to the system log. |
| * Only include *.conf files in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d. (In Debian, the |
| .dpkg-dist versions were included as well, which could lead to very |
| strange situations.) |
| * Make IPW3945 and IPW2100 power levels configurable in |
| /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/wireless-ipw-power.conf. |
| * Disable power management correctly on IPW2100 when switching to AC mode. |
| * Allow iwpriv and iwconfig in /usr/sbin instead of /sbin. |
| * Add a module that enables AC97 power saving. |
| * Move modules to /usr/share from /usr/lib. According to the FHS 2.3 |
| architecture-independent files should go into /usr/share. For backward |
| compatibility /usr/local/lib/... remains supported, but /usr/local/share |
| is added as an option. |
| |
| 1.34 -- 28 May 2007 |
| |
| * Added support for modules. Modules should be executables, |
| and they should be placed in /usr/lib/laptop-mode-tools/modules, |
| /usr/local/lib/laptop-mode-tools/modules, or /etc/laptop-mode/modules. |
| The modules are called directly from the laptop_mode script, and can |
| use all configuration settings from the laptop-mode.conf, plus the |
| ON_AC and ACTIVATE variables. |
| * Added modularized configuration file. The main configuration file still |
| works, but in addition, configuration files in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d |
| are processed as well. Modules should use modularized configuration |
| files. Module configuration files are loaded after the main configuration |
| file. |
| * The IGNORE_NICE_LOAD setting would only be set for the ondemand |
| governor, while it is also available for some other CPU frequency |
| governors. (Debian BTS #425387) |
| * Silenced error message from modprobe when the CPU frequency |
| governor was not compiled as a module. (Debian BTS #425957) |
| * Included support for setting IPW3945 and IPW2200 power management |
| levels. This feature is implemented as a module, with configuration |
| file /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/wireless-ipw-power.conf. (Debian BTS |
| #425551) |
| |
| 1.33 -- 19 May 2007 |
| |
| * LSB logging functions fixed. Apparently the stuff that was submitted |
| by David was Debian-specific, so it would only work on Debian. I now |
| fixed the "normal" script to use the real LSB functions, while the Debian |
| diff contains the prettier Debian-only versions. Thanks to all who |
| reported this. |
| * PARTITIONS didn't support wildcards. Now it does, thanks to a nice |
| clean patch by Mikko Rapeli. (Debian BTS #394557.) |
| * Laptop mode state is now restored on resume for systems using |
| pbbuttonsd, thanks to a patch from John Wright. (Debian BTS #398179.) |
| * The FAQ has been removed from the package, as is the HTML version of |
| the revision history. For now, only the text version of the revision |
| history remains. The reason for this is that previously, I generated |
| all of these from a common source. Now, however, I can't do that |
| anymore since the HTML must satisfy the syntax accepted by the CMS |
| used for the web site. Perhaps it will be back some day when I |
| generate everything using some XSLT or something. |
| * Fixed a bug in the DPMS standby calculation code that caused incorrect |
| values to be calculated. |
| * Updated laptop mode homepage URL in /usr/sbin/laptop_mode. |
| * Layout tweaks in config file. |
| * Added ability to specify the ignore_nice_load setting for CPU frequency |
| scaling governors. The "IGNORE_NICE_LOAD" setting specifies that |
| background programs that have a low priority ("nice level") should not |
| cause the CPU frequency to be increased. (You generally want this to be |
| enabled in battery mode.) The settings are called |
| BATT_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD, LM_AC_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD and |
| NOLM_AC_CPU_IGNORE_NICE_LOAD. (Debian BTS #416445.) |
| * Fix for terminal blanking (thanks in part to Giorgio Lando). This adds |
| a new configuration setting "TERMINALS", which should specify the |
| device file of at least one of the virtual consoles. (The default is |
| /dev/tty1.) |
| * Fix for X blanking. Determining the correct consoles and users has |
| caused a tremendous amount of headaches, I hope this solution will work |
| properly. At least this time I've thoroughly tested it. :-) |
| * Added documentation hints on how to configure apply X blanking settings |
| on new login sessions as well. |
| * Updated lm-profiler to be able to handle timestamps at the beginning of |
| kernel output lines. |
| * Updated lm-profiler so that it reports read and write accesses |
| separately. This was done because read accesses usually have a very |
| different cause (e.g., lack of prefetching) than write accesses (e.g., |
| synchronous I/O calls). |
| * Added ability to set LCD brightness. The facility is extremely simple, |
| because brightness support is very different between laptop systems. |
| Basically, you need to set CONTROL_BRIGHTNESS=1 and then you need to |
| specify commands to set the LCD brightness in *_BRIGHTNESS_COMMAND, |
| and where the output of those commands should go in BRIGHTNESS_OUTPUT. |
| Suggestions for commands are given in laptop-mode.conf. |
| |
| 1.32 -- 6 October 2006 |
| |
| * CPU frequency settings now affect all CPUs instead of just CPU #0. |
| * The init script output now uses LSB logging functionality. (Thanks |
| David Härdeman!) |
| * Original mount options for filesystems were not correctly restored, |
| causing mounts to look like atime when they were actually originally |
| noatime. (Thanks Karl Tomlinson, Remy Blank!) |
| * Calls to "blockdev" now use the full path, in case /sbin is not in the |
| path. |
| * If multiple binaries for "xset" are found, use the first one instead |
| of applying the settings using each binary found. (Thanks Cyrill |
| Helg!) |
| * Correctly figure out screen to apply DPMI settings to. (Thanks Cyrill |
| Helg!) |
| * Increased default HD idle timeout to 20 seconds (from 5 seconds). (I'd |
| appreciate some feedback on good values for this setting!) |
| * Changed restart, reload and force-reload behaviour to forcibly disable |
| and stop laptop mode, remove all stored state files in /var/run, and |
| then enable and start laptop mode again. This is supposed to make |
| things work better when rebooting on Slackware, where users have been |
| instructed to put "/etc/rc.d/init.d/laptop-mode restart" in rc.local. |
| * The FAQ now includes a "date last updated" line. |
| * Fixed terminal powerdown/blanking default values. (Thanks Jose!) |
| * Modprobe CPU frequency governor modules before attempting to set the |
| governor. |
| * Don't redirect blockdev error output to /dev/null. |
| |
| 1.31 -- 17 April 2006 |
| |
| * Removed incorrect assumption that gawk's asort() could be used. |
| * Added /dev/mapper/* to the default values for PARTITIONS. This ought |
| to make the default configuration work with Device Mapper devices. |
| Note that /dev/mapper/* hasn't been added to the "auto" list, it's |
| really a separate entry in the default, which is now "auto /dev/ |
| mapper/*". This means that older configurations are not affected by |
| this change. |
| * Got rid of ^M characters that I'd inserted into some files by mistake. |
| * Installer now deals correctly with the case that /etc/rc.d is a link |
| to /etc/init.d, as in SuSE 10, and other cases where some of the |
| standard init script directories are links and some are files. The |
| installer now prefers non-link directories over links. |
| * Added config option ASSUME_SCSI_IS_SATA, which is enabled by default. |
| When this option is enabled, laptop mode tools will regard SCSI drives |
| as SATA drives and control them using hdparm instead of sdparm. This |
| stuff is really a mess -- ATA CD-ROM drives can be controlled only |
| using sdparm (but fortunately laptop mode tools currently ignores CD |
| drives), drives that seem like SCSI drives can be controlled only with |
| hdparm, and I really wouldn't know about USB drives. If anyone has a |
| USB drive and cares to tell me how to spin it down, please drop me a |
| note! |
| |
| 1.30 -- 23 February 2006 |
| |
| * Fixed /dev/null vs. /dev/nul typo. |
| * Changed battery percentage check to count "greater than or equal" as |
| enough charge instead of just "greater than". |
| * If the minimum percentage check and all the other charge checks are |
| disabled (by setting them to 0), the critical battery state check now |
| considers a non-critical battery state as "enough". It doesn't |
| normally do this if any of the other checks are enabled because that |
| would fully override the other checks. |
| * "laptop_mode status" now also reports the CPU frequency scaling |
| governor settings. |
| |
| 1.29 -- 22 February 2006 |
| |
| * The backward compatibility for the _MAH and _MWH didn't work as well |
| as I expected. Fixed. |
| * Nonexistent batteries weren't being handled properly. Fixed. |
| |
| 1.28 -- 22 February 2006 |
| |
| * Removed useless config reading call from lm_battery.sh. |
| * Introduced MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_PERCENT, which is as intuitive as |
| MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES except that it specifies the charge threshold |
| as a percentage of the battery design capacity. |
| * Support for MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES has been removed. Many batteries |
| either report their discharge rates unreliably or not at all, so it's |
| not very useful. Also, disabling laptop mode increases power usage and |
| thereby increases discharge rate, which makes the rating even more |
| unreliable. If MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES is specified in laptop- |
| mode.conf and MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_PERCENT is not, the value of the |
| former is used as if it were the value of the latter, as a backward |
| compatibility measure. That will give you one percent per minute, |
| which is correct on a battery that lasts for 100 minutes. A |
| conservative conversion. |
| * MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_MAH/MWH are still supported, but they are |
| removed from the default config and the manual page for now, to draw |
| out complaints from people for which MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_PERCENT |
| doesn't work. I hope that it will work for pretty much everyone, so |
| that I can remove these options in the future. |
| * Added DISABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_CRITICAL_BATTERY_LEVEL. This uses the |
| state reported by the battery. (Thanks to Ken Milmore.) |
| * Similar changes have been made for auto-hibernation. We now have |
| AUTO_HIBERNATION_ON_CRITICAL_BATTERY_LEVEL and |
| AUTO_HIBERNATION_BATTERY_CHARGE_PERCENT. |
| * Config file explanation overhaul. |
| * Fixed a bug where the HD write cache would be disabled any time laptop |
| mode was disabled. (Thanks to Chung-chieh Shan AKA Ken.) |
| * Removed error output from "which" when udevinfo, sdparm or hdparm were |
| not found. |
| |
| 1.27 -- 18 February 2006 |
| |
| * Added filtering for grep output used in determining the battery's |
| charge reporting units. |
| * Sometimes, when laptop_mode is called directly after unplugging, the |
| battery still reports that it is "charged" and not "discharging", even |
| though we're not on AC anymore. In this state, we used to miss |
| critically low battery charges, and we would enable data loss |
| sensistive features anyway. We now use the MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE |
| logic (but not MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES -- we have no (reliable) |
| discharge rate) to check for a minimum battery capacity. |
| |
| 1.26 -- 7 February 2006 |
| |
| * Changed meaning of "medium" slightly so that on processors with only |
| two frequency levels, it selects the lower value and not the higher |
| one. (Thanks, Ken Milmore!) |
| * Fixed handling of discharge rate "unknown". This error was not noticed |
| before because the code used to be in an ACPI action script, whose |
| output only ends up in the acpid logs. :-/ |
| * Various indentation and wrapping touchups. |
| * Check for errors on more kernel parameters. |
| * Include FAQ and the revision history in the package, in the |
| Documentation directory. |
| * Remove the revision history from the README. Saves me a lot of |
| redundant work. |
| * Replaced all references to "X Windows" with "X". |
| |
| 1.25 -- 6 February 2006 |
| |
| * Added new CPU frequency setting "medium", which selects a frequency |
| somewhere between the slowest and the fastest available frequencies. |
| * Typo fix: default config talked about "highest" as a CPU frequency |
| value, while the actual value is called "fastest". |
| * Changed default governor for battery mode to "ondemand" and the |
| maximum frequency to "medium". |
| * Reverted Slackware fix from the 1.24 release. Doesn't work. Instead, |
| Slackware users have to call the laptop-mode service with "restart" |
| from their rc.local. I've put this in the FAQ. |
| |
| 1.24 -- 5 February 2006 |
| |
| * Fixed up MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES processing. |
| * Fixed up multiple-battery-slot handling (previous fix was broken). |
| * Remove /var/run/laptop-mode-* files when first starting laptop mode |
| service. Apparently on Slackware the /var/run directory isn't cleared |
| on bootup as the FHS standard specifies. |
| |
| 1.23 -- 4 February 2006 |
| |
| * Fixed up MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_MAH processing. |
| * Fixed handling of multiple battery slots when only one battery is |
| present. |
| * Fixed up auto-hibernation. It should work now. |
| * Removed ACPI_WITHOUT_AC_EVENTS. No longer needed, as all the |
| processing is done by "laptop_mode auto". |
| * Clarified manpage laptop-mode.conf so that it is clear that |
| CONTROL_CPU_FREQUENCY also switches governor control. |
| * Fixed udev media detection. The fallback still worked, but it's |
| cleaner if it works this way. |
| |
| 1.22 -- 28 January 2006 |
| |
| * The SECOND, inevitable bugfix release after such a large release. :-) |
| * Fixed typo in laptop_mode that broke terminal powerdown control. |
| (Blanking still worked though.) |
| * Added checks on whether the kernel sysctl settings were actually |
| applied. "echo value > /proc/..." does not show errors, so failure was |
| silent until now. |
| * Removed warnings on MAX_LOST_WORK_SECONDS > 85899. The real problem is |
| in the kernel, I submitted patches to fix that problem. |
| * In the debian package config directories were incorrectly created in |
| the root directory instead of under /etc. |
| |
| 1.21 -- 26 January 2006 |
| |
| * The first, inevitable bugfix release after such a large release. |
| * Fixed installation problem with existing old /var/run/laptop-mode- |
| state. |
| * Changed installer to stop existing laptop mode service before |
| installing. |
| * Added check for 32-bit architecture to new warning about maximum |
| MAX_LOST_WORK_SECONDS. (The warning does not apply to 64-bit |
| architectures.) |
| * Fixed laptop_mode output when state unchanged. The prefix "Laptop mode |
| " was not printed. |
| |
| 1.20 -- 25 January 2006 |
| |
| * Fixed a typo that broke the setting of the CPU governor. Thanks to a |
| *lot* of people for submitting exactly the same patch. :-) And sorry |
| that I didn't get around to actually applying the patches for so long. |
| :-( |
| * Adapted the "big fat warning" so that it gives more info on how to fix |
| the problem. |
| * Applied a patch by Chung-chieh Shan (aka Ken) that is supposed to fix |
| the feature that controls DPMS standby settings. Everybody, please |
| report back if this actually works, I have NOT tested this but as it |
| didn't work before either I'm not too worried about breaking it. ;-) |
| * Corrected a path that was shown in an error message in /etc/acpi/ |
| actions/lm_battery.sh. |
| * Fixed typo in config: Shoudl should've been should. |
| * Changed the default for CONTROL_NOATIME to 0. Mutt doesn't work if |
| filesystems are mounted noatime, and the only thing it actually buys |
| you is that the disk doesn't spin up if you haven't changed *anything* |
| at all for a period of 10 minutes. The chances of that happening are |
| practically zero -- you might as well have suspended your system |
| during that time, that would have saved more power, as you weren't |
| actually doing anything! |
| * Fixed a problem that would cause the acpid log to be destroyed every |
| time it ran laptop_mode. As much a bug in acpid as in laptop_mode, but |
| anyway, it's fixed now. |
| * Modified lm-profiler so that block_dump is disabled when profiling is |
| interrupted. |
| * Added support for controlling terminal blanking settings: |
| CONTROL_TERMINAL, and BATT_TERMINAL_BLANK_MINUTES, |
| BATT_TERMINAL_POWERDOWN_MINUTES, etc. This feature is disabled by |
| default. |
| * Changed the default for CONTROL_START_STOP to 1. There are no scripts |
| in the start/stop directories initially anyway, and having to |
| explicitly enable this is problematic for any related programs that |
| want to use this feature. |
| * Changed the default for CONTROL_HD_WRITECACHE to 0. As several people |
| pointed out, it's very dangerous to turn on write caching without |
| explicit knowledge of the system's administrator. |
| * Added support for auto-hibernation once a configurable battery level |
| is reached. The control option is ENABLE_AUTO_HIBERNATION. |
| * Added "sort", "mv" and "sleep" to the default-ignored programs for lm- |
| profiler, as they are used by lm-profiler itself. |
| * Improved checking for media types, so that no actions are taken on CD- |
| ROM drives and the like. This gets rid of the errors that a lot of |
| people have been seeing. Thanks to Andrey Borzenkov for contributing |
| the bulk of this change. This does NOT yet use the new 2.6.16 kernel |
| sysfs "media" attribute, I'll add that when I have the time to upgrade |
| to 2.6.16 myself. |
| * Support for SCSI drives and sdparm. The appropriate command is |
| automatically detected. For now, only idle timeout setting is |
| supported (SCSI setting SCT, Standby Condition Timer). |
| * Improved the output of lm-profiler so that it doesn't scroll a line |
| every second. |
| * As it turns out, noatime remounting was only done on ext3, reiserfs |
| and xfs filesystems. Fixed. |
| * Removed LMTVERSION from the distribution. The version number is now |
| stored only in /usr/sbin/laptop_mode, and extracted as needed using |
| some grep/sed trickery. This saves me from the mistake of changing one |
| but not the other. |
| * Changed syslog.conf control so that when laptop mode is disabled by |
| the init script, the original syslog.conf is restored. While laptop |
| mode is active, it is saved as syslog.conf.no-lm. This fixes a problem |
| on some distros (most notably Debian) where the laptop mode |
| syslog.conf files were being deleted on purging laptop-mode-tools, |
| leaving the system in a state without a syslog.conf. Now, the purging |
| can only take place when the laptop mode service has been stopped, |
| which means that the original syslog.conf will be back in place before |
| the purging is done. |
| * When the laptop mode init script is stopped (i.e., laptop mode |
| processing is completely disabled), the start/stop program actions |
| taken by laptop mode are now completely undone. Previously, the |
| computer would be left in the state as if it were in nolm-ac mode with |
| laptop mode enabled. |
| * Added "force" option to /usr/sbin/laptop_mode script. This makes |
| laptop mode reapply all settings even though the new state is the same |
| as the previous state. This is useful when coming back from a state |
| that may have lost some hardware settings, such as hibernation. (Note |
| however that stopping the service during hibernation has the same |
| effect.) It is also useful for implementing the "reload" command on |
| the init script. |
| * Changed the implementation of the "reload" command in the init script |
| so that it does "laptop_mode auto force" instead of "start". That |
| works better. |
| * Removed special support for "start" and "stop" from the laptop_mode |
| command. These options now all do the same thing as "auto". This means |
| that it has become IMPOSSIBLE to do something like "/usr/sbin/ |
| laptop_mode start" manually and expect it to work. Laptop mode will |
| always simply get into the state that it detects that it needs to get |
| into. |
| * Moved all special detection logic, such as "minimum battery minutes" |
| etc., into the main laptop_mode file. Previously, an ill-timed |
| "laptop_mode auto" could re-enable laptop mode even after it had been |
| disabled using "laptop_mode stop" by the lm_battery.sh script. |
| * From this version onward the "minimum battery minutes" only influences |
| the things that can cause data-loss, i.e., most settings stay at |
| maximum powersaving, only the HD keeps spun up when the system is low |
| on power. |
| * Minimum battery minutes now applies to ALL batteries, i.e., it only |
| kicks in when ALL of the batteries are below the threshold. |
| * Speed optimization: the laptop_mode script no longer needs to call |
| itself recursively in order to read the configuration file. |
| * AC state is now correctly applied when booting up on AC. This wasn't |
| done correctly in 1.11. |
| * The installer now creates the batt-start/stop, lm-ac-start/stop and |
| nolm-ac-start/stop subdirectories in /etc/laptop-mode. |
| * Added a check for MAX_LOST_WORK_SECONDS > 85899 for kernel versions |
| 2.6.13 and greater. These kernels do some calculations on clock tick |
| counts and 2^31 / 250 = ~85899 is the maximum value for any centisecs |
| kernel setting that they can handle, due to integer overflow issues. |
| Note that this restriction only applies to kernels running on 32-bit |
| architectures. |
| * Prevented the output of the start-stop scripts from interfering with |
| the output of the laptop_mode script. |
| |
| 1.11 -- 29 October 2005 |
| |
| Special thaks go to Jan Polacek, who contributed a very big chunk of work. |
| |
| * Cosmetic fix: "laptop_mode status" tried to get the readahead setting |
| for block devices that weren't, causing error messages. |
| * Fixed backward compatibility with VERBOSE setting (now called |
| VERBOSE_OUTPUT), because Debian's init system may define this before |
| calling laptop_mode. |
| * Cosmetic fix: sed would be run on /var/run/laptop-mode-nolm-mount-opts |
| when it didn't yet exist, causing an error message. |
| * Cosmetic fix: hdparm is not required, but it would be called even if |
| it wasn't installed. Now a warning message is given instead, if any of |
| the hdparm-requiring options are enabled while hdparm is not |
| installed. |
| * Changed default for CONTROL_HD_POWERMGMT to 0. Some people have been |
| experiencing system crashes when their hard drives' powermgmt settings |
| were modified. |
| * Cosmetic fix: updated config file to be 80-column compliant. |
| * Added ACPI-ONLY marker to every configuration setting that only works |
| on ACPI. |
| * Instead of /var/run/laptop-mode-active, there is now /var/run/laptop- |
| mode-state, which contains both the laptop mode and power state. This |
| is used to detect actual state changes, something which was not |
| possible before. If the state doesn't change, then laptop_mode doesn't |
| do anything. |
| * Added support for controlling the CPU minimum frequency, and frequency |
| scaling governor. Thanks to nokos for contributing this. |
| * Added the ability to run start/stop scripts. Although the |
| implementation is mine, thanks go to Jan Polacek for the inspiration |
| (and an initial implementation). You can put links to init scripts (or |
| any other scripts that take "start" and "stop" commands) in the |
| following directories: |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/nolm-ac-start |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/nolm-ac-stop |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/lm-ac-start |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/lm-ac-stop |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/batt-start |
| o /etc/laptop-mode/batt-stop |
| * Added the ability to adjust X-windows DPMS timing, using |
| CONTROL_DPMS_STANDBY. Thanks to Jan Polacek. |
| * Fixes to useless output of hdparm when laptop mode tries to determine |
| if a drive is a CD-ROM. Thanks to Jan Polacek. |
| * New tool "lm-profiler", adapted from a contribution by Jan Polacek. It |
| provides a profile of your system's disk usage and running network |
| services, and it can automatically disable network services and other |
| daemons when you are running on battery, by placing links to the |
| appropriate init scripts in /etc/laptop-mode/batt-stop. |
| |
| 1.10 -- 14 August 2005 |
| |
| * Verbose output was on by default in earlier config files. |
| * Absence of AC adapters was interpreted as battery mode. |
| * HD powermanagement default was incorrect for when laptop mode was not |
| active. |
| |
| 1.09 -- 9 August 2005 |
| |
| * Fixed a typo that caused CPU frequency scaling to no longer work. |
| * Support for CPU throttling, using CONTROL_CPU_THROTTLING etc. |
| * Stopped using /etc/fstab for determining the default values for |
| filesystem options. Instead, they are now stored when laptop mode is |
| activated, in /var/run/laptop-mode-nolm-mountopts. |
| * The init script does not send the output of laptop mode to /dev/null |
| anymore. The VERBOSE_OUTPUT option becomes more useful that way. |
| * The state reported by laptop mode is split into an enabled/disabled |
| state, which represents whether laptop mode processing is enabled at |
| all, and an active/not active state, which indicates whether laptop |
| mode is currently active. |
| * HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS settings to replace the HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT |
| settings. The old settings still work, but the new ones are much less |
| awkward. |
| * ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS has been renamed to |
| ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC, and a new option |
| ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_BATTERY has been added. This way, laptop mode |
| can be completely disabled by disabling all ENABLE_ options, which is |
| nice and intuitive. |
| * NOLM_MAX_LOST_WORK_SECONDS is removed, and replaced by DEF_MAX_AGE in |
| the kernel settings section. Changing this option will not get anyone |
| any longer battery life, it will just lose more work, so it's now in |
| the "don't change this unless you're really sure" section. |
| |
| 1.08 -- 4 August 2005 |
| |
| * Fixed a typo in lm_battery.sh that broke the automatic disabling when |
| power is low, and the same typo in lm-syslog-setup. |
| |
| 1.07 -- 29 July 2005 |
| |
| * Fixed the breakage in 1.06 -- it didn't work at all because of a typo. |
| * Cleaned up the complete configuration system. The old configurations |
| should still be working, but if it's not too much trouble I recommend |
| that you start with a fresh config file. The settings are named more |
| consistently, and there is a clear grouping of the options in the new |
| default config. |
| * Allowed separate configuration of MAX_AGE based on AC/non-AC. |
| * Allowed separate configuration of readahead when laptop mode is |
| disabled. |
| |
| 1.06 -- 28 July 2005 |
| |
| * Integration with pbbuttonsd that listens to the user's power profile |
| (thanks to Matthias Grimm). |
| * "status" command for laptop_mode, displays all kinds of useful stuff. |
| Also supported by the init script, as is standard in Fedora/RH. |
| (Thanks to Piete Brooks for the suggestion.) |
| * Added option DO_WRITECACHE to enable laptop mode tools control over |
| write caching, and settings BATT_WRITECACHE, AC_WRITECACHE_WITH_LM and |
| AC_WRITECACHE_WITHOUT_LM to set the write caching off or on depending |
| on the power and laptop mode state. This is ENABLED by default -- it |
| always turns write caching off when you are on laptop mode. |
| * Support fstypes in fstab with fallbacks, e.g. "ext3,ext2". |
| * Allow REMOUNT_PARTITIONS to contain mount points as well as devices. |
| * Add "auto" keyword to REMOUNT_PARTITIONS, as a way to indicate "all |
| the default partitions". |
| * Split CPU_MAXFREQ option into BATT_CPU_MAXFREQ, |
| AC_CPU_MAXFREQ_WITH_LM, AC_CPU_MAXFREQ_WITHOUT_LM. (The CPU_MAXFREQ |
| setting is now interpreted as BATT_CPU_MAXFREQ.) |
| * Support "fastest" in CPU_MAXFREQ options, for use in |
| AC_CPU_MAXFREQ_WITHOUT_LM. |
| * Adjust syslog and HD settings even when basic laptop mode status does |
| not change. Previous versions bailed out, but this meant that |
| theAC_*_WITH_LM versus BATT_* options were not actually applied when |
| using LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON=1! |
| * Add "--version" option for laptop_mode. |
| * Added BIG FAT WARNING when root filesystem is ext3 and doesn't support |
| mount option. This happens when the rootfs is mounted as ext2 at boot |
| because of a missing ext3 module, and there is no way to find out the |
| actual rootfstype later, so if you get this error you might be running |
| without journaling! |
| * Support for multiple CPUs for frequency scaling (in preparation for |
| multicore laptop processors.) |
| * Support /etc/default/laptop-mode, with option |
| ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE="yes"/"no". This is for backward compatibility with |
| the Ubuntu "laptop-mode" package. |
| * Add VERBOSE configuration setting, for debugging purposes. Laptop mode |
| tools will log everything it does when you enable this option. |
| * Detect if a drive is not a CD/DVD player before setting spindown |
| timeouts on it. This gets rid of "command not supported" errors in |
| kernel logs. |
| * Include /dev/sda etc. in HD, because those are the device names Linux |
| gives to SATA drives. |
| |
| 1.05 -- 10 April 2005 |
| |
| * Detection of init.d or rc.d locations. Should make things work better |
| on Slackware. |
| * Make things work if /proc/acpi/ac_adapter contains no AC adapters. |
| * Signal acpid to re-read its configuration after installing. |
| * Restore config file defaults, so that old config files will keep |
| working. |
| * Made syslog daemon name configurable, so that you can make it signal |
| alternative syslog daemons. (The signal to be sent still needs to be |
| SIGHUP though.) |
| * Remove error output from "which" in the install script. The result was |
| handled gracefully anyway, so why print the output? |
| * New configuration setting REMOUNT_PARTITIONS. Default is "", which |
| means all partitions on the drives listed in the HD option. |
| * New configuration settings MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_MAH and |
| MINIMUM_BATTERY_CHARGE_MWH to specify the minimum remaining charge in |
| the battery for laptop mode to remain enabled (in mAh and mWh, |
| respectively). This is intended as a replacement for |
| MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES for systems that don't specify a discharge |
| rate. |
| * When booting up on AC, laptop mode did not set the correct |
| syslog.conf, because it thought "laptop mode is already disabled so I |
| don't need to do anything". |
| * Added a manual page for lm-syslog-setup. |
| * Attempt at support for pbbuttonsd and pmud. The APM support files are |
| no longer installed when /proc/pmu exists (i.e. your system has PMU |
| support), because those interfere with the native PMU support. |
| * Lowered READAHEAD default from 8MB to 3MB. The high readahead caused |
| the system cache to be flushed by too-large readaheads on other files. |
| |
| 1.04 -- 9 November 2004 |
| |
| * SEE ALSO sections in manpages updated to respect the normal |
| conventions. |
| * Mention path of laptop_mode script in manual page. |
| * Make AC detection work again on PMU (i.e. Mac) systems. |
| * Remove config file defaults. Simply define them in the config file. |
| The defaults were a pain to maintain, and I had to repeat them in |
| several places (manual page, all files in which the config was used, |
| config file itself). This was simply too error-prone. |
| * Add support for syslog configuration switching based on laptop mode |
| and power state. See laptop-mode.conf(8) and the contents of /etc/ |
| laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf, and run /usr/sbin/lm-syslog-setup to set |
| it up. |
| * Added support for forcing laptop mode start/stop using a second |
| "force" option to /usr/sbin/laptop_mode. |
| * Added support for "/" in mount options. It was used as a delimiter for |
| the sed "s" command, and that went wrong when loopback devices were |
| used. |
| * Dropped the DocBook SGML sources for the manpages, started working |
| with pure nroff sources. The output of docbook-to-man was crap |
| recently, so I decided to cut it out of the loop. |
| |
| 1.03 -- 27 October 2004 |
| |
| * Add LM_WHEN_LID_CLOSED, to enable laptop mode when the laptop's lid is |
| closed. Only works on ACPI. |
| * Fixed incorrect default in a comment in the config file. |
| * Fixed a bug in 1.01 which meant that laptop mode was never enabled |
| when using APM. |
| |
| 1.02 -- 3 October 2004 |
| |
| * Choice between update-rc.d and chkconfig was incorrect, so install on |
| non-Debian systems didn't completely work. There's no new Debian |
| package for this version. |
| |
| 1.01 -- 3 October 2004 (the herring and whitebread edition) |
| |
| * Updated commented-out default values for configuration parameters in |
| config file, which were not all updated correctly in the previous |
| version. |
| * Updated the version number 0.100 in the release notes to 1.00. Just |
| goes to show how long I doubted on whether to call it 1.00. :) |
| * Changed the way the config file is read. Formerly used the construct $ |
| {VAR:-'value'} to set defaults, now I simply set the values and then |
| source the config file. The immediate effect of this is that the |
| surrounding environment cannot influence the laptop mode anymore, |
| moving the app closer to being safe to use suid. Note that it is NOT |
| SAFE to run laptop_mode suid at this moment, I haven't taken all |
| necessary security measures! |
| * The "hdparm -B" values are now configurable using the |
| (AC|BATT)_HDPARM_POWERMGMT options. The option DO_HD_POWERMGMT can be |
| set to 0 to disable the -B behaviour altogether. |
| * The "hdparm -B" calls are now done BEFORE the -S calls. This is |
| because some HDs change the -S setting as a side-effect of using the - |
| B option. |
| * Use "chkconfig" when it is available to install the rc.d-to-init.d |
| links. (Until now only update-rc.d was supported.) |
| * AC_HD is split into AC_HD_WITH_LM and AC_HD_WITHOUT_LM. The former |
| value is used when AC power is present but laptop mode is still |
| enabled (e.g. when the option LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON is enabled). The |
| latter value is used when AC power is present and laptop mode is |
| disabled. The AC_HDPARM_POWERMGMT option has been split in the same |
| way. The old option AC_HD is still supported, if the config file |
| specifies it then it overrides both new config values. |
| * Ripped usage of on_ac_power out of the script and included native |
| support for pmud. This is because on_ac_power is part of apmd, and |
| doesn't support pmud natively (except for the Debian version, which |
| does support pmud). I don't want to depend on having apmd installed or |
| on running on a Debian distro. |
| |
| 1.00 -- 3 September 2004 |
| |
| * Use update-rc.d to install init scripts. Init scripts are now |
| installed in the default runlevels, not in the bootup/sysinit scripts. |
| * Reduced dependence on location of certain binaries, depend more on |
| PATH. |
| * Optimize away double actions -- if laptop mode is already in the |
| requested state, the laptop_mode script now does nothing instead of |
| re-initializing laptop mode to the state it was already in. |
| * Laptop mode is now enabled using the "master switch" /etc/init.d/ |
| laptop-mode. If it has not been called with parameter "start", then |
| "laptop_mode start" will not start laptop mode. (The file that is used |
| to control this is /var/run/laptop-mode-enabled.) |
| * Reduced default value for LM_SECONDS_BEFORE_SYNC to 2 (was 5, but this |
| saves more power). |
| * Reduced default value for MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES to 7 (was 10). |
| * Reduced default value for BATT_HD to 1 (5 seconds), was 4 (20 |
| seconds). |
| * Reduced default value for DIRTY_BACKGROUND_RATIO to 1 (was 5). |
| * Increased default value for DIRTY_RATIO to 60 (was 40 previously). |
| * Default value for HD changed to "/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd". |
| * Corrected documentation to state that READAHEAD is in kilobytes, not |
| in 512-byte sectors. |
| * Added option ACPI_WITHOUT_AC_EVENTS. Use this if your ACPI doesn't |
| generate AC events but does generate battery events. |
| |
| 0.99 -- 18 August 2004 |
| |
| * Fixed bug that made DO_CPU=1 fail. |
| |
| 0.98 -- 18 August 2004 |
| |
| * Fixed bug in ACPI battery script -- missing discharge rate would lead |
| to division by zero. |
| * Added "auto" option to /usr/sbin/laptop_mode script. This autodetects |
| the AC state and enables/disables laptop mode accordingly, using |
| either /usr/bin/on_ac_power (if available) or using the /proc/acpi and |
| /proc/apm values. |
| * Modified the APM and ACPI event scripts to simply call "laptop_mode |
| auto". |
| |
| 0.97 -- 12 August 2004 |
| |
| * Fixed: APM script was working backwards, it enabled laptop mode when |
| not on battery. |
| * Fixed: the default for the HD configuration option was not working. |
| |
| 0.96 -- 5 August 2004 |
| |
| * Installer was broken in 0.95. |
| * APM scripts now support LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON as well (i.e. they |
| didn't before :) ) |
| * chkconfig support in the init script. |
| |
| 0.95 -- 31 July 2004 |
| |
| * Moved Debian package support out of the regular package, into a |
| separate diff. |
| * Moved all config files to /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf. Like to |
| keep this consistent. The installer moves all old config files to |
| their new locations. |
| * Fixed bashisms in /etc/init.d/laptop-mode. |
| * Added support for LAPTOP_MODE_ALWAYS_ON. |
| * Manual pages also included in the regular distribution, not only in |
| the Debian package. |
| * Init script now also stops, reloads etcetera. |
| |
| 0.94 -- 29 July 2004 |
| |
| * Added Debian packaging support. |
| * Moved laptop_mode script to /usr/sbin/laptop_mode, because it uses |
| programs in /usr. |
| * Moved Debian-style config file to /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf (/ |
| etc/default/laptop-mode is intended only for init-scripts.) |
| * Wrote manual pages (only built and installed in non-Debian for now.) |
| |
| 0.93 -- 28 July 2004 |
| |
| * Various small fixes. |
| * Enable laptop mode when booting on battery. (Tested only on Debian, |
| feedback on other distributions wanted!) |
| |
| 0.92 -- 25 July 2004 |
| |
| * Add support for doing hdparm on multiple hard drives. |
| * Various other fixes (thanks to Peter Ross). |
| |
| 0.91 -- 25 July 2004 |
| |
| * Add experimental APM support. |
| |
| 0.90 -- 24 July 2004 |
| |
| * Initial release. Before this, the scripts were maintained in the |
| kernel documentation. (They are still in there BTW, it's just that |
| laptop-mode-tools contains some extras and is usually slightly ahead.) |
