<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Eddie b wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Derek Broughton <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> > wrote: > >> Eddie b wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Eddie b <<a href="mailto:lazered@gmail.com">lazered@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:pauljohn32@gmail.com">pauljohn32@gmail.com</a>> >> >> 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. </div>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 -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> 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 :( </div>