[arch-general] APM and GNOME

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Rafael Beraldo <rberaldo at cabaladada.org> wrote:
>  I don't use laptop-mode-tools nor is acpid running which brings me the
> question: what is messing up with APM? How can I tell GNOME and
> gnome-power-manager not to change its settings?

Probably it's pm-utils, and more specifically, the
/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/harddrive script. I had the same problem on
my laptop, and to disable this behavior I created an empty file at
/etc/pm/power.d/harddrive which overrides the script in
/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d.