Re: Re: Should battery generate events?

[Tim Dijkstra <newsuser-TpnWJeB+oO0hKRfeEwdQzg@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:10:46 +0200
Stefan Seyfried <seife-T+3qhDtrTvDv8lqoKu5MV4HBZQ1bDw0s@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:25:57PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>  
> > I would want to avoid this happening again. Ideally I would want my
> > laptop to "shutdown -h now" if battery power is to low (well rather
> > have it go to S3 or softwaresuspend, but it seems hopeless to get
> > that to work :(  
> 
> Well, there are user space tools that will do this for you.
> SUSE provides powersaved which will poll your battery if it doesn't
> support events and take apropriate action (default is shutdown if
> battery is <2%). It is also caching the data so that your battery
> applet does not have to poll the battery by itself (which is
> ridiculously expensive on many machines) but it only has to ask
> powersaved.

I could not find a lot about it on the web, then downloaded the src rpm
from suse. Looks interesting ... I do not use suse myself but maybe I
can get (parts of it) to work on my system.

> Regarding suwsusp: this should work on most i386 machines out of the
> box with upcoming SUSE 9.2.

I find that a bold statement if I look at the number of posts to this
and the swsusp2 list in which people tell they can't get suspend to
work. 

grts Tim


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