On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:23 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 12:46 pm, Jeremy wrote:
> > The battery monitor on the tast bar shows a grer / black battery with a
> > red X over it.  And when i click on setup it says
> >
> > "Your computer seems to have a parital ACPI installation probably ACPI
> > was enabled, but some of the sub-options were not enabled - you need to
> > enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and rebuild
> > your kernel
>
> IIRC you need to install acpid in order to get full functionality (for
> battery monitoring, AC adaptor on/off, etc.)
>
> �urpmi acpid�


I have it installed.  It didn't make a difference.  This is on a Inspiron8200.  
when i look under /proc/acpi there is stuff under there but i'm not sure what 
i should look for.   



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