Soenke wrote: > Hi Bart, > > thanks for the quick reply. > >> Hmmmm. These events are actually hardware dependent, and if the new >> battery does not send them, there's not much you can do about it except >> perhaps polling. > > I was afraid that this might be the case. I checked again with acpid in > debug mode, there is a battery event every 60 - 70 minutes. :( > >> I will consider adding a polling feature to laptop mode >> tools; it would be something like a cron job that runs every minute or >> so. It's a pretty heavyweight solution though. :-/ If you install a cron >> job that runs "/usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto" every minute, I expect it >> works again? > > The cron job works fine, so a polling feature would be nice. For now, I > just put a new entry into the system crontab, but I will try to find a > somewhat more elegant (and perhaps configurable via the laptop-mode > config files) solution for the problem over the weekend. > At the moment I am not sure how to get a polling behaviour without using > cron, but I might have time to look into that as well. If you are > interested, I can send you my solution when it is finished. That might > take a few days, though.
Hi Soenke, I think this might be related to bug #491396 which I just noticed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491396 Could you perhaps try an older kernel to confirm whether you are experiencing this problem? Cheers, Bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
