On Wednesday 25 August 2010 10:54:23 Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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

Thank you!  I topped it up.  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick