Hibernate on batery low
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 12 14:31:47 UTC 2008
Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:50:25 -0400, art wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Raise your low-battery limit. Mine hibernates with 10 minutes left -
>>> perhaps it could be shorter, but at 3 minutes, it didn't work.
>> Where did you set this?
>
> Right click on the battery icon and then select the second tab.
> Apparently it doesn't work, so beware.
Apparently? The evidence seems to be that it _does_ work, but that it's not
guaranteed to do so if you set your threshhold too low. If, in fact, your
ACPI is hard-wired to shut down on "critical", it won't be any surprise if
you can't hibernate at the same point.
--
derek
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