[ydl-gen] OT?? Hardware question : b;inkety-blink

[Brian Wood]

Agreed about the on-screen widget being better. I get this with Windoze 
running under VirtualPC, as well as net activity, USB and other devices. 
Of course this is more important because real hangs with Windows are 
*not* rare, and the blinding speed of VirtualPC makes one wonder some 
times if you have hung or not :-)

Anyway, the on-topic point of my post was to say that the little LED 
does seem to work normally on an iBook under YDL, so the original 
question would seem to not be a YDL issue, although I would be 
interested in the answer to it.

Eric Dunbar wrote:

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>When you work in a dark environment the green or white blinking is
>extremely irritating. As a Mac user I like my computers to "just
>work", including my Linux installs. Sometimes info is useful but often
>times too much is counter-productive, and, drive activity isn't
>exactly that useful anymore (since real hangs are pretty rare).
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>As for modding your kernel -- it ought to be a simple change (it's
>apparently been in the kernel for years). If I'm ever to have drive
>activity shown, I'd rather it be a little on-screen widget than
>something as intrusive as the sleep light.
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