Hibernate on batery low

[Derek Broughton]

Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:

> I just lost about an hours work because my system shut down when the
> battery got low.  I don't think it even bothered to issue a warning.  I
> have the configuration set to hibernate when the batery is low.  Why
> isn't it working.
> 
> I'm using Hardy on an intel 64 bit platform.

Raise your low-battery limit.  Mine hibernates with 10 minutes left -
perhaps it could be shorter, but at 3 minutes, it didn't work.  I never
really checked what was happening, but a couple of possibilities come to
mind:  acpi hard "wired" to shut down at some time greater than you set for
hibernate; or the capacity left calculation is wrong
-- 
derek