Comment 7 for bug 513706

OK, so somehow I had a different, newer version of laptop-mode-tools than lucid. I probably got it accidentally from a PPA. My original ("THE BUG IS") bug report is sort-of bunk as far as lucid goes, though this may appear in the future if (when) hdparm is updated.

The normal "fix" (see above) of purging laptop-mode-tools and adding regular old /etc/hdparm.conf lines for apm=254 and apm_battery=254 worked once I downgraded to the lucid's laptop-mode-tools. For most people having frequent laptop-drive-kerchunks and high load cycle numbers from SMART, this will probably be all that you need to do.

I apologize for the noise.

As for why others are still having this problem, I would suspect that it's either a bug/difference in laptop-mode-tools or (if laptop-mode-tools is removed but not purged) that some other package is utilizing the setting from laptop-mode-tools.conf improperly. I think that some universe gnome-applet or udev script might be doing this, but since I'm not having the problem myself, I can't really help there.

I'm going to leave this set Incomplete so that the other person who is having the problem can still use this bug report to seek a solution.