In message <F8B4DFEA-B936-482A-BB5D-1E71633E0ECC@shagadelic.org>, Jason Thorpe 
writes:
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>On Jan 12, 2006, at 5:07 AM, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
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>> Or may be try a pnpbios enabled kernel.
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>Or better yet, ACPI.
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Until there's standard ACPI support for suspend/resume and battery 
monitoring, I don't think that that's feasible on most laptops.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb