battery monitor

Fri Feb 4 17:48:50 UTC 2005

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jim lawrence wrote:
| Hi,
| i have a notebook and i use the battery monitor applet to well monitor
| the battery life.  I have 2 questions.
|
| 1. if I try to suspend I get the following error
|         The Suspend command '/usr/bin/apm -s' was unsuccessful
| 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?
|
| System specs.
|   Medion MD42100 notebook
|   intel 1.5 Ghz. mobile processor
|   intel ipw2200 centrino wireless
|   256 MB ram (yes I need more)
|   D855 intel chipset
|   15" LCD Display
|    dvd-rom/CD-RW
|
|
| Thanks in advance

Calling `apm -s` from the console spits out that the kernel doesn't have
APM support - kinda strange, isn't it?

- -M
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