Hiho, On Wednesday 24 January 2007 06:36, linuxmedia4@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I wanted to completely shut off "Battery Polling", and I was under the > impression that this was controlled by "apm". So I set it back to "1 > second polling" and went to System -> Services and disabled "apmd". That > didn't effect the nibbling at the hard drive every second, I believe KDE is also checking cd-trays, and the like, regularly to check if something like a harddrive was attached (this is how they then inform you about a recently attached device and ask you how to open it). I am not sure where you turn it off, but I am sure it is possible to do so somewhere. But I did hear from someone that this desktop feature can cause xruns from time to time... sincerely, Marije
