Depending on your motherboard and/or hardware components, enabling power-saving mode may cause:
* noisy or distorted sound playback,
* a slowdown in disk performance,
* system freezes or instability,
* massive corruption of the filesystem (rare, but observed at least once).
Before use athcool, you must recognize these potential DANGERS. Please use athcool AT YOUR OWN RISK.
athcool is supplied "as is". The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied. The author and any other persons assume no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of athcool.
This manual page was written by Nicolas Boullis <nboullis@debian.org>. And many users reported to me it works (or not). Thanks to all who contributed to athcool.
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