Hello Eli, Since you run Linux/ACPI on a Compaq Laptop, I'd like to know if you can actually get a battery readout (/proc/acpi/battery not empty). I can't get this to work on my laptop - Evo 1000v with RH9.0 with modified ACPI revision 20021212. If so, what version of kernel and ACPI are you using?
Thanks, Erez Hadad On Tuesday 25 November 2003 18:44, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello List. > > I have a Compaq Presario 2121EA. I recently recompiled the 2.4.22 kernel > to make it support ACPI (a flavor of power management) and installed > acpid as well. > > I do this for one single purpose: I want the laptop to shut down > gracefully when the battery goes low. I must be sure about this working > properly. > > The sample file for acpid says: > > event=button power.* > action=/usr/local/bin/power.sh "%e" > > which is more or less a handling of the power button. While this makes > some people enthusiastic, it's by far not what I need. > > What acpid does is to listen to /proc/acpi/events, and trigger off a > program according to the nature of the event and the config files. > > My questions: > > (1) Does a low battery generate an "event"? > (2) Does anyone know how to use ACPI to shut down a laptop gracefully? > (3) In case I'll write an application of my own, that polls > /proc/acpi/battery/(something): What behaviour can I expect from my > laptop? Will it disconnect power by itself at some stage? What's the > criterion for doing that? What should trigger off a graceful shutdown? > > Thanks, > Eli -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
