On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 01:05:44PM -0700, Adrian D Jensen wrote:
> Personally, I never worry about a battery going dead while I'm in
> Linux. I have a "save to disk" suspend partition set up and the BIOS
> will automatically issue a system suspend when the battery drops to
> 2%, which APM faithfully picks up and prepares for, leaving just
> enough power to save everything off to disk. You might want to see if
> you can do the same and just let the machine run until it gets
> critically low and then let it suspend and swap the battery.
I have a VAIO F400LT. I think it should suspend to disk at 7% of
battery life (at least it says it will which I assume means it does in
Windows). It doesn't do this in linux though.
Do you have any magic in some apm file to do this?
I played with apm_proxy and tried to add an "apm -s" on the battery
change event which I think is the one that is issued then. But it
blatently didn't work because I left it overnight it was dead the next
day.
Any pointers? Any people with VAIOs want to say "Yes it works for me
you're just being silly"?
Simon.
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