Tool for Energy saving schemes

[Ponny]

Mijau

Is there everybody who know, how can I setup energy saving schemes in Mint 9?
Is there any tool for settings energy saving schemes?

Ponny

[DrHu]

There are some Fan/power management/control programs available: these are most useful for notebooks, for saving battery charge (giving a longer uptime)

For a desktop running at full power for hard-drives, doesn't need power management
--you don't have to spin down hard drives: although you might since it doesn't affect performance that much for a desktop machine

[Ponny]

OK, but in my case, after a half hour maybe the HD goes to "spin down" and monitor to sleep mode.
How can I turn off this?
Desktop of course.

Ponny

[DrHu]

OK, but in my case, after a half hour maybe the HD goes to "spin down" and monitor to sleep mode

For Ubuntu, that is a default and their maximum delay before spindown, whether or not it can be changed is a guess: Ubuntu doesn't think so, or they wouldn't have included a spin down setting for the install of their system..

Mint version numbers are almost identical to Ubuntu (Ubuntu 12: Mint 12 ), at least within any ubuntu software thatr gets installed, and if you check the /etc/sources.list file you should find 90+ % Ubuntu repositories being used..

http://askubuntu.com/questions/26334/gn ... hard-disks
--gnome power manager..

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement
http://askubuntu.com/questions/39760/ho ... -down-time
https://solutionlocker.wordpress.com/20 ... ntu-12-04/

Install the latest hdparm, hard drive control program, to set hard drive setting
--according to the above (last) link, you won't need any editing if you have the latest hdparm: to stop spin down options
--that function is also in

Different hard drives (ide, sata) different controls..
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHahler/Bug59695

In /etc/acpi/power.sh, laptop mode gets handled. If it gets enabled, hdparm is called with "-B 1", if it gets disabled with "-B 254". 254 is the least aggressive setting. 255 is off, but does not work for all disks.

Also you should either use the laptop-mode tools, which is the usual program for power management on a notebook (fan, cpu, hard drive), and smartmontools for smart monitoring of a hard drive, detects likely failing hard drive..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools

[Ponny]

Thanks. That's all fine.
But I want to get rid off this annoying sleeping mode for monitor after maybe half hour.
How can I do that? Or maybe is this imposible in Mint and Ubuntu?

If there is any tool, I can instal from repos, or there is no such tools.....
Or should I install KDE to get this tool?

Ponny