Configuring ACPI to do useful things?
Gawrysiak, Piotr (GILW)
Piotr.Gawrysiak at fao.org
Mon May 31 15:20:14 UTC 2004
In KDE you have klaptop (included in FC2) which allows you to configure some
ACPI actions (lid, power, standby, suspend, battery monitoring, cpu
throttling etc.)
Piotr Gawrysiak
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Subject: Re: Configuring ACPI to do useful things?
On Sun, 30 May 2004 21:38:28 -0400, Brian Kendig wrote:
> I'm using FC2 on my laptop, and ACPI appears to be working, but the
> default installation doesn't configure it to do anything interesting.
> /etc/acpi/events only contains a script to shut it down when I press
> the power button, and that works fine, but I want it to turn off the
> screen if it's idle for a period of time, or suspend the laptop if it's
> idle for a longer period or if the lid is closed.
>
> Is there any simple way to install more ACPI functionality? An rpm
> that will add more /etc/acpi scripts, for example? Or is there any way
> to configure power management behavior through the Gnome front-end?
>
I don't know of any rpm, but here are some example scripts:
http://www.littleredbat.net/~mk/vaio.html
> Also, how can I get a battery level indicator to appear in the panel?
Right click on the panel -> Add to panel -> Utility -> Battery charge
monitor.
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