Laptop mode on Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Eddie b wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> wrote:
> 
>> Eddie b wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Eddie b <lazered at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> My bad!  Yes I am using gnome-power-manager, thats what is not
>> >> working.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Does anyone have any pointers to getting a lappy power management to
>> > work ? Oh, and a way that actually does work :) Unlike most things
>> > Google has shown.
>>
>> Define "work".  Laptop power management covers a huge array of issues.
>> - Sleep/Suspend/Hibernate states - imo, those can always be made to work
>> on a reasonably modern laptop.
> 
> 
> hibernate, as per my original post, I am on the road a lot and I need a
> working power monitor that tells me how much battery is left, and when it
> gets to critical, it takes the correct action and safely shuts
> down/hibernates, not just drops dead because the battery can't give it any
> more power
> 
> I thought it was not working because of the ficticous values the
> time/percentage shows, but when it does show the 3% I note it did not
> hibernate, never does/did.

Sorry, I clearly didn't see your _original_ post.  So I agree with Dotan
that kde-guidance-powermanager does what you're asking, and it doesn't
really seem to be heavily kde dependent (hard for me to tell when I have
all of KDE installed, anyway).

However, I _don't_ trust the time remaining indicators.  3% may not be
enough.  In kde-guidance-powermanager, it uses "minutes" remaining, and I
used to have it set to 3 minutes, and it didn't trigger.  I set it up to 10
minutes, and it always works.  Of course, I might be wasting 5 potential
minutes.
-- 
derek