The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 7. Laptop Modules

7.1. Introduction

The laptop modules consists of:

Battery Monitor

Low Battery Warning

Low Battery Critical

PCMIA

Power Control

You must have the kernel APM package installed in your kernel. Usefull information on how to do this can be found at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/apm.html" and in the Battery Powered Linux mini-HOWTO at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.html".

If you want the 'suspend' and 'standby' menu commands to work then you should install the Linux apmd package (version 2.4 or later). If you want to use them from non-root accounts you must mark the 'apm' command 'set uid root'.

To do this log on as root and enter:

 %chown root /usr/bin/apm;chmod +s /usr/bin/apm

Warning

By doing this you allow any user of your system to put it into the suspend states - if you are the only user this should not be a problem.