ok...
rc-update show _does_ have apmd (although it's not assigned a run level).
And, emerge -pv gnome-applets has
{ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 -acpi +apm -debug -doc
+gstreamer +ipv6 0 kbBut -- /etc/init.d/apmd start shows "apm support is not compiled into the kernel". (Which I could interpret as being compiled as a module) And -- modprobe apm produces "FATAL: Error inserting apm (lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r9/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko): no such device (this file does exist) maybe I need to read up more on these two before blowing a lot of time on the user list (?) or is it a simple fix? John D -----Original Message----- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 7:47 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI John Dangler schreef: > weird - rc-update show doesn't show acpi at all. > /etc/init.d/acpid doesn't exist. Well, you can't very well run the acpi daemon if you don't have it, can you-- and if you don't have it, how is GNOME supposed to find it? * sys-power/acpid Available versions: 1.0.2-r2 1.0.4-r1 1.0.4-r2 Installed: 1.0.4-r2 Homepage: http://acpid.sourceforge.net Description: Daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Perhaps acpi is not in your USE flags-- otherwise the daemon would have probably been installed as a dependency of something that could use it, like gnome-applets: emerge -pv gnome-applets These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.10.1 +acpi -apm -debug -doc +gstreamer -ipv6 6,103 kB ... since the battery monitor applet depends on the acpi (or apm) daemon to be running to be able to grab the data and display it. Or are you using apm instead? Sorry, no laptop, so I don't know how to work with that... but I would assume it works the same way, just instead of compiling the kernel with acpi support, building packages with +acpi and using the acpi daemon, you would instead build the kernel with apm support, build packages with +apm and run the apm daemon. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
