acpi

Eric Beversluis econophil at charter.net
Wed Mar 15 14:35:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:23 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:02:46PM -0500, Mauriat Miranda wrote:
>  > On 3/14/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>  > > Eric Beversluis wrote:
>  > > > I've just installed Fedora Core 4 on my Sony PCG-SRX77 and noticed that
>  > 
>  > Just installed FC4
>  > 
>  > > There are applets that you can add to the panel for monitoring and
>  > > controlling certain functions. there is a cpu scaling applet for
>  > > changing frequency. There is the gnome-power-manager for adjusting the
>  > > actions taken when the lid is closed, the computer is on either AC or
>  > > battery power. (time to suspend, hibernate or power-off computer)
>  > >  From the system menu for FC5, there is a suspend choice you could use
>  > > instead of suspend.
>  > 
>  > FC5?
>  > I know some applets exist for FC4, but I don't recall seeing suspend
>  > option in the menu in FC4 default install of Gnome, or for that matter
>  > gnome-power-manager.
> 
> FC4 lacks the infrastructure work (pm-utils, mkinitrd etc) for
> hibernate/suspend to work.  It's still not perfect in FC5, but
> at least now we have something to build on.
> 
> The FC4 kernel also completely lacks suspend to disk support,
> due to the missing userspace bits.
> 
> 		Dave
> 
I found the battery monitor applet in the "Add to Panel" section. 
Sorry to hear about lack of support for hibernate/suspend.  I actually
like the XP hibernate option better than a Mac-type sleep option, as it
totally turns off the machine and yet reboots very quickly.

EB
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