<br>Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Littlefield, Tyler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tyler@tysdomain.com">tyler@tysdomain.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello all:<br>
I have a few questions, I was hoping someone could help me out here.<br>
First, I'll start off by saying that my netbook is a sort of PDA for me.<br>
I just boot it up and when I'm taking care of stuff for work running<br>
around getting info and that, I can use it to grab the info. I use Linux<br>
for this, but my battery dies kind of quickly. I'm also looking to<br>
optomize performance as much as possible.<br>
So, I sat down and tried to optomize a kernel. Both to save space (since<br>
this is a smaller drive), and to make things a bit quicker, even by a<br>
little bit.<br>
I put the config here:<br>
<a href="http://tds-solutions.net/config.tar.bz2" target="_blank">http://tds-solutions.net/config.tar.bz2</a><br>
First, I'm curious what else I can yank out of there to make everything<br>
smaller. I'd like to cut down on the drivers and all that, and just<br>
include the driver for my specific harddrive if that's possible, as well<br>
as the wireless card. Can I turn off scsi/pata/ata since I have a sata<br>
drive? Is there other stuff I missed that I could take out?<br>
Finally, my last two questions.<br>
1) Is there a way to access acpi so I can put the computer into standby<br>
quickly? I'm not sure how to pull that off from the cli, but doing it<br>
with code would work.<br></blockquote><div><br>If you are referring to Suspend-to-RAM here, you can install the 'pm-utils'<br>package and then run the 'pm-suspend' script from the cli to suspend<br>the machine.<br>
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2) Is there a way for me to detect when the lid of my laptop has been<br>
closed and put it into standby, and/or set an idle timer to put it into<br>
standby? If there are clients out there that can interface with acpi and<br>
help with this, awesome. If not, and I need to code something up, that<br>
works too.<br>
Finally, I'm trying to find a way, since I do not use it to turn off the<br>
display. Is this possible?<br><br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Most distros can be configured to do all that. You need not have to code<br>anything new. You'll just have to set up the power management policies<br>appropriately to tell what should happen when your laptop lid is closed<br>
etc.<br><br>Regards,<br>Srivatsa S. Bhat <br></div></div>