[gentoo-user] Re: KDE and hdparm

[Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>]

I wrote:

> Mick writes:

> > From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:
> > 
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044
> > 
> > I don't why but it does, messes up any settings that hdparm may have
> > set up and p*sses me off.  o_O
> > 
> > As soon as KDE starts up (even when waking up from suspend to ram) it
> > resets the drives.  I haven't found a way of telling it how to behave
> > (i.e. by respecting existing settings in hdparm).
> 
> Argh, that's annoying. Thanks for the information. O well, first I
> setuid'ed hdparm to make it work as a user, then I reverted that back
> as I started it in /etc/init.d/local, and now I'm again setuid'ing it
> so I can set the settings from /etc/conf.d/hdparm in
> ~/.kde4/Autostart/.
> 
> I filed a bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248905
> You might want to vote for it so it gets some attention and will
> hopefully be fixed soon.

They say it's probably specific to Gentoo, so I filed this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334393

	Wonko