Laptop mode on Hardy

[Eddie b]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>wrote:

> 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.
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> derek
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So long as I don't have to install much of KDE I might try it, but I heard
GPM works fine in Fedora, so I cant see why it doesn't in Ubuntu, maybe
developers should stop tearing the guts out of things :(
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