battery monitor

[D. D. Brierton]

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

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