Re: Battery-low auto suspend in FC3

[Mark Panen <mark panen gmail com>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:00:24 -0800 (PST), Ed Swierk
<eswierk cs stanford edu> 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 cs stanford edu

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.