On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:22 -0500, jim lawrence wrote: > 1. if I try to suspend I get the following error > The Suspend command '/usr/bin/apm -s' was unsuccessful The current kernels default to acpi instead of apm for power management. I *believe*, although I'm not sure, that if you stop the acpid service and start the apmd service then you can use apm for power management. > 2. it seems that the battery life drains really fast if I run just on > the battery. Is there a setting I can change so the battery won't get > drained so fast? Read these: man laptop_mode man laptop-mode.conf less /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.10/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================