Laptop mode on Hardy

[Eddie b]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Eddie b <lazered at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am having a problem with Travelmate laptop shutting down on critical
> > battery, it simply doesn't nor does it give me indication, ie: the
> > hover-over and clicking on values are never equal (out  from each other
> > varying from 20 to 35%), the only time they match is when the battery
> hits
> > 0%. I have enabled laptop tools, it indicated when it is on battery, but
> the
> > times never change they remain 99% untill it hits 0%, the click-on value
> > often sits at 64%, this is on a fully charged battery, I know I get 2.5
> > hours out of this batery, and the only indication I get its poor is when
> the
> > laptops internal criticalbatt amber light flashes.
> >
> > Now I can live with this to a point, but what I can't live with is it
> just
> > dying because the batery can't supply any more power, this as you know is
> > not good for any filesystem.
> >
> > I have read many suggestions from google, percentages and settings are
> > correct from what I can tell in acpi-support and lapt-top tools, but i've
> > even read that ubuntu " strips the guts out of the debian laptop tools
> and
> > doesnt honour many of its settings" to quote a post off one of the myriad
> > pages of results recommending installing the debian version. I have
> followed
> > other suggestions involving gconf-editor, unchecking 1 and 2 of the
> > settings, but also to no avail.
> >
> > Has anyone running one of these thing with Hardy actually managed to get
> it
> > to work?  Either to shut-off safely, or at least report the correct
> > percentage and/or time remaining, preferably all threee but I wont push
> my
> > luck.
> >
>
> I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence.
>
> You don't mention how you are monitoring and controlling power.  In
> the past, I have messed with acpi scripts, but it is not needed now.
> In 8.04, I've been happy with the gnome-power-manager framework.  If
> you are running gnome, you can install that and then run the applet.
> If you right click on that, you can open preferences and it will let
> you specify a shutdown at low power.
>

My bad!  Yes I am using gnome-power-manager, thats what is not working.



>
> I think/hope that the detailed user revision of acpi scripts is a
> thing of the past.
>
>
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