> > > Do you use a program like gnome-power-manager, that does this for you? > > How do you know btw, that pm-powersave is not run? > > Michael > > > Thanks. I was testing this from the console with no X running and from X without a power manager running mistakenly thinking that I did not need one. I also do not have acpi installed since its deprecated and subsequently installed it again and discovered that it resolved the problem as well.
I had this script to test and was simply watching syslog cat /etc/pm/power.d/test #!/bin/bash case $1 in true) logger "testbattrue" ;; false) logger "testbatfalse" ;; esac I did not understand the requirements of pm-powersave. Thanks and sorry for any time wasted. my googling did not result in an answer - hence the bug report. gnome=power-manager installed and works fine.