Hibernate on batery low

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:39:36 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:

> 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

I can't find a way to set this under Gnome.  Any ideas?  This is probably 
the problem my laptop thinks there is still 4 minutes of power left when 
it quits.  

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