RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess hadess net] 
> > - The old Battery Charge Monitor has a "Suspend command" 
> preference, that's
> > empty by default. Does this mean that it doesn't really do 
> suspend and sleep
> > stuff at all?
> 
> I don't remember if Glynn added suspend yet (I mailed him a bunch of
> ideas with handling low batteries, like MacOS X does), but the command
> will be "apm" on most Linux systems (PowerMac machines using pmud have
> this command for compatibility), and maybe another one on 
> ACPI machines,
> so it would only be a case of trying both.

I guess that Glynn did add suspend to battfink, because it's there in the
control panel. It must do some kind of auto-detection thing so it knows what
to do.

Murray Cumming
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