[SPARCbook] SPARCbook power-saving and NCE

[Chris Powell]

Hi,

I'm having a couple of problems with my SPARCbook 3GS.

Firstly, I can't get the screen brightness to vary. It's bright enough,
but I'd like it dimmer, especially when running off battery. The pause
and up/down arrow keys don't change it. The keys do, however, change
the screen brightness value (checked using syshw -v).

Secondly I'm not sure how to get the disc to spin-down after a sensible
delay. It currently seems to spin-down after about 30 seconds, but
spins-up almost immediately. I've tried changing /etc/power.conf and
adding a line:

sd at 3,0          180

To spin-down in 3 minutes, but it still spins-down after 30 seconds
or so (I did use pmconfig to update powerd).

I'm running 2.6 with all the Tadpole patches.

Finally, is NCE available for 2.6 (or later!)? Seems as if it stopped
at 2.5.1, will it run on a 2.6 machine?

Thanks.


Chris.