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It seems evident that IBM was my wrong choice. (Sigh!!) Anyway, thanks a lot, David. David Mentre <David.Mentre@irisa.fr> writes: >mahn-soo choi <mschoi@postech.ac.kr> writes: > >[snip] >> 1. When I do not use the computer for 2 minutes or so, >> the system goes to the suspend mode. The problem is that the time >> is too short. Can I extend the idle (?) time, or disable the very >> feature of APM? Please see my kernel configuration at the bottom >> of this message. > I usually go in windows mode to set APM features with the ThinkPad >utilities. It is not possible to do such a thing under Linux because IBM >does not want to provide the specifications how to set the values of >energy control (as far as I know). > > 2. I installed apm-2.4 on my Linux box. The problem is that both apm > and xapm report only discrete values of battery status; e.g. only > 100%, 80%, and 10%, but not any other intermediate values. > My wild guess /proc/apm is not updated properly. > Did I do something wrong? > > Hmm. I think so. I think it is coming from the 365XD. Under window$95, >the battery utility report the same discrete values (100%, 80% and >10%). I would guess that on low end laptops IBM does not provide all APM >functionnalities. > >Hope it helps, >