If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise "laptopmode" may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :)
BillK On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:06 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It > > used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, > > it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out > > with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to > > control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? > > > > PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: > > > > Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't > > set profile "Performance Low" set for cpu0 > > > > What's missing there? > > I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer > has some "time remaining" calculation that it uses, 10% power > remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, > if the battery is discharging faster than before. >
