2007/1/25, nescivi <nescivi@xxxxxxxxx>:> 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... I found cron with its runs every ten minutes more disturbing. (*)Afaik KDE uses hal and dbus for the device-notifications. It doesn'tpoll devices but gets notified. (*) I added a check for a running jackd (pidof jackd || <run-crons>)and got rid of problems while still having prelink and co run on aregular basis. Have a nice day, Arnold-- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/---Wenn man mit Raubkopien Bands wie Brosis oder Britney Spears wirklichverhindern könnte, würde ich mir noch heute einen Stapel Brenner undeinen Sack Rohlinge kaufen.
