On 1/24/15, mrr <mire...@free.fr> wrote: > On 24/01/2015 03:50, Melvin Call wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have two computers, both running Wheezy and the >> XFCE4 Desktop. Both have attached UPS devices, and >> lsusb shows the UPS attached to each machine. Yet, >> on one I have options to configure actions to take >> when on battery, and on the other I have no "On >> Battery" tab. I enabled the battery monitor plug-in >> in the notification area on both, and the problematic >> one shows only to be online (no battery present). >> >> I am looking for help to enable the battery option >> on the second machine so when the power goes off >> the system will shutdown or suspend to RAM at my >> choosing. I have compared installed packages between >> the two and see nothing significant. What would my >> next step be, please? >> >> Regards, >> Melvin >> >> > > Hi Melvin, > > You can use: > $ acpi --battery > to get battery information. > > You can create a udev rule to trigger (for example) a suspend to RAM > (/usr/sbin/pm-suspend) when the battery is unplugged or below a limit. > I can lead you to information about that if you are interested. > > Apart form this I have no clue about the xfce widget (I'm not on a > laptop) but you could try some of the xfce4-power-* commands: > $ xfce4-power-information > $ xfce4-power-manager > $ xfce4-power-manager-settings > > And of course, continue to investigate differences (maybe in /etc or in > ~/.local) between your 2 computers, that's a good idea! > > Cheers, > > -- > mrr
Thanks for the reply mrr. And I would welcome pointers to developing udev rules. I dabbled with that a while back, but never really did much with it. In this case it may be what I need. I thought you had hit the nail on the head when I tried the acpi command, but the same command on the "working" system shows the same output: no-battery:~]$ acpi --battery No support for device type: power_supply and with-battery:~]$ acpi --battery No support for device type: power_supply So I tried acpi -V, but there is no real difference: no-battery:~]$ acpi -V No support for device type: power_supply No support for device type: power_supply Cooling 0: intel_powerclamp no state information available Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 6: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 7: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 8: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 9: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 10: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 11: Processor 0 of 0 Cooling 12: Processor 0 of 0 and with-battery:~]$ acpi -V No support for device type: power_supply No support for device type: power_supply Thermal 0: ok, 40.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 75.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 73.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 2 switches to mode active at temperature 73.0 degrees C Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 3 Cooling 1: Fan 1 of 1 I don't see anything in /etc or ~/.local that jumps out at me. The only thing I found that was definitely different was ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml does not have the battery setting in it on the non-working system, but since that file seems to reflect the settings of xfce4-power-manager-settings I would expect that to be the case. So yeah, if you have some udev rule writing help that you can point me to, I will try that avenue. Thanks! Melvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cadgqn54fbkttasfrdl0eem64oeufuxyk+5qpgqsvnd7f0l1...@mail.gmail.com
