Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Dan Laba <danlaba@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 25 October 2002 04:08, Eric Price wrote:
> I see I see.  I also read another APM post just before
> yours.  They were suggesting "acpi=off" "apm=on" for
> boot parameters.
> That worked and then I read your reply above.  Thanks
> a lot for writing.  I might remove the "apm=on" from
> grub's menu.1st file to see if that works like you
> said.  I'm just happy to have apm back.  I know it's
> supposedly "old" school, but it does everything I
> need: fan, suspend, screen lamp properly goes off per
> bios request.
>
> One last thing... Any advantages to having the apmd up
> and running as a runlevel service?  It's not at the
> moment and all my apm stuff is working fine.  Just
> curious...
>
> Take care.
> Eric Pierce
>

Hi Eric,
the apmd demon it sees is used just to execute commands in response to 
actions. It's possible to make the computer shutdown itself instead of just 
dying when the batery is over. But for this to work, somebody must catch the 
Batery low message and issue apm -s This is apmd.
I checked and I don't have it running either. I have something like [kapmd] 
but i don't know what it means.
So, if you want to play, just let the battery drain itself and see if the 
computer dies or initiates a controled shutdown.
Then, activate apmd, be sure to configure it, and let the battery drain again.
It seems like you have to configure it in /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement
Read also the man page: "man apmd"

Cheers,
Dan Laba.