Spin down the harddisk with hdparm
By jeltsch on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 21:57The command to spin down the hard disk after 50 seconds (5x10) being idle:
/sbin/hdparm -S10 /dev/hda
The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed...
hdparm
Suse Linux 9.2 and encrypted DVD playback (xine, libdvdcss2, libxine, hdparm, DMA)
By jeltsch on Sun, 11/12/2006 - 20:35Although several linux video players (e.g. xine) do support playback of encrypted DVDs, Suse has crippled the libraries needed to do so. Thus none of the players/frontends included in Suse Linux 9.2 can play encrypted DVDs. What are encrypted DVDs? Essentially all commerical movies are released exclusively as encrypted DVDs. It is a pain in the ass, but actually can be cured. To play encrypted DVDs you need libdvdcss2. This is the famous hack, that was in the news and that obviously was not liked by the media industry.