Out of battery indicator.

[Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)]

Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Does anyone have a solution to running out of battery using ACPI (5.3?).
> I keep forgetting to plug in my power supply and the machine dies rather
> suddenly without beeping or giving me any warning that it was out of
> battery.
> 
> Any ideas?  I would have thought that this was an O/S task rather than a
> third party app task.
> 
> Joe


I use apm so my solution is in /etc/apmd.conf but for ACPI I think you 
need to look at /etc/devd.conf and the cmbat stuff... I'm not sure of 
the details, but maybe this can point you in the right direction.

-mark