hi,
i've an eeepc 1005HA with squeeze, working like a charm.
i know there are tools (e.g for gnome, etc) that monitor the status of
the battery and can be configured to gently shutdown the pc when the
battery level is low.
i simply want to do exactly the same, using acpi. a quite simple task,
i'd say.
so i installed the package eeepc-acpi-tools (1.1.11), i added to the
script /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh (which already handles battery* events
as i saw in /etc/acpi/events/battery) some rows, and now the script does
his job.
the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i
checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC
power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's
charging/discharging (even at very low levels).
since those events are created by the kernel ( i'm using a vanilla
2.6.32-5, the battery module is auto loaded) and since the status of the
battery (in /sys/....BAT0) is indeed updated every 30 s (or so), the
questions are:
1) how do i force the kernel produce those events? is there a way?
2) shoud i consider an upgrade of the bios?
3) what about other laptops? do anybody share this problem?
have a nice day! :)
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Matteo Giani
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