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Re: pbbuttonsd 0.5.9-2 unofficial package



On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:26, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:04:50AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > Well, this is not related to packaging, but still I think that
> > > critically low is when the battery level drops below BWL_last value
> > > of the config file, by default it's 3.
> > Isn't it too low, considering that the remaining time given by the
> > battery is far from being accurate?
> 
> Well I suspect it depends heavily from what your /proc/apm states about
> the subject of remaining time.
> 
> Perhaps Matthias can give us more information on why he made this choice
> in the default configuration file? ...

>From what *I* can tell the choice seems to be way better than that of
pmud. I very often ran out of battery and pbbuttonsd very reliably shut
down the machine before the battery was fully drained. And that happend
in low usage as well heavy usage (compiling with lots of disk access)
conditions...

Soeren
> Cheers.



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