On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:00:24 -0800 (PST), Ed Swierk <eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've recently upgraded to an ACPI-capable laptop, and it works great with > FC3 for the most part. > > One feature I miss from APM is the ability to have the laptop > automatically suspend itself when the battery power gets too low. > > I use KDE and know that the klaptop feature supports automatically > suspending, but I'd like the laptop to sleep even if KDE happens not to be > running (e.g. while it's sitting at the login screen). Also, klaptop's > idea of suspend is to twiddle /sys/power/state directly, which bypasses > the necessary unloading of modules that my own suspend script does. > > Is there a simple daemon that monitors the battery power level via ACPI, > and can launch a script when it reaches a certain threshold? > > --Ed > > -- > Ed Swierk > eswierk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx klaptop has a feature where you can run a command depending on what % the battery state is in, i don't know if thats what you mean ? Have you disabled APM, i have tried disabling APM and enabling but ACPI will freeze my laptop on suspend and hibernate does not work at all.
