On Friday 07 January 2005 09:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: > > Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery > > program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to > > console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate > > action. But then it returns to the desktop. > > Couple things > > Is your swap partition big enough to handle a suspend operation, for > instance, suspend won't work if you have 512MB memory and 384MB swap. > Yes it is. I had the horrors that it mightn't when you said that though :) > Some laptops don't really follow the acpi standard, so suspend and stanby > really don't work properly. > > cpufreqd is another app that works with acpi to slow down your processor > when it is on battery or idle. I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] unholy]# service cpufreq start Probing cpufreq modules : [FAILED]
> > > And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the > > system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the > > application. > > Hmmm. It is working here. Did you do service acpid start after installing > the new packages? I'm sorry, the icon changes when you connect the mains and I thought the icon dissapeared. >Check in teh MCC/System/Services that they are set to run at boot. You also >need to check dmesg after rebooting to check that acpi was enabled at boot, >if dmesg reports that it was disabled due to some reason, then using the >acpi=force option will make it load. dmesg just says that cpufreq will be deprecated from 2.6.8 but aside from that no other messages so I guess it works?
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