From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 02:26:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ECE16A420 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:26:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lparsons@mail.ahc.umn.edu) Received: from lenti.med.umn.edu (lenti.med.umn.edu [128.101.81.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046043D79 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:26:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lparsons@mail.ahc.umn.edu) Received: from weed.ccgb.umn.edu (weed.ccgb.umn.edu [160.94.109.46]) by lenti.med.umn.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA16907 for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:26:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:26:52 -0600 (CST) From: Lee S Parsons To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: battery less than 10 minutes kills X X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:26:59 -0000 Hello I recently upgraded my thinkpad R32 from 5.4 to 6.0 (new hard drive for the new OS). I compiled my kernel with ACPI for power management, which works pretty well for most things. I even got the battery monitor in KDE working correctly, which makes me somewhat proud of myself :) However, my problem is this: when the battery gets to less than 10 minutes run time remaining, X is killed without warning. I'll get a little popup window next to the battery telling me that I have that much battery remaining, and then before I can plug in all my windows are going away and next thing I know I'm back at the console. I don't remember having had this problem in 5.4. I thought 5.4 would let me damn near run the system battery down to nothing in X. I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is a setting from BSD, X, or KDE? I don't see anything useful reported in /var/log/messges, either. I did check my power settings in KDE, and I have it configured to do nothing for low battery. So I don't think its there... thanks, Lee