power management

spyderusa11 · 06-20-2003, 03:03 PM

I didn't know if to post this in this thread or in the laptop thread, so if I put it in the wrong place I apologize.

I know Linux has some kind of power management that suspends the system or something like that. But I was wondering if there was a program or feature or something along those lines that turns off the hard drive or the monitor after X amount of minutes.

Also, my system is a P4-M which uses SpeedStep. I was wondering if Linux uses it at all, and how to adjust any settings.

Thanks.
Mike

cuckoopint · 06-20-2003, 10:39 PM

for the hard drive, try using hdparm

As for the monitor, if you are using X, you can use the xscreensaver