In message <39227.138.26.156.222.1076955750.squirrel@www.vsrc.uab.edu>, "Emre Y
ildirim" writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am using -current with ACPI on my Sony PictureBook.  Battery, AC Adapter and
> Lid
>all work wonderfully.  I can close the lid in X and the screen will turn off. 
> I can
>reopen it, and it will turn back on...no problems at all.  I push the power bu
>tton,
>the laptop shuts down clean in under one second.  I'm using ACPI though, not A
>PM. 
>So you might want to give that a try.  I tried to enable the ACPI thermal zone
> stuff
>in the kernel, but that caused a few problems (the keyboard stops working for 
>some
>odd reason).

Can you do a suspend?

>
>Now all I need is a X app that will show me battery life using ACPI....

I thought I saw that go by.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb