On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 16:18, [Bug 1422] wrote: > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1422 > > Product: kernel > Component: libsasl2-plug-ntlm > Summary: no apm support > Version: 2.4.21-0.pre4.4mdk > Platform: PC > OS/Version: All > Status: UNCONFIRMED > Severity: normal > Priority: P2 > AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > There is no default support for APM in the kernel. As a result, applets like the > battery status (gnome) does not work.
I think bugs like this indicate the current state of ACPI is inadequate. We don't really want to ship a distribution which appears, to laptop users, to have no power management support. There really needs to be some kind of improvement. Ideally, DrakX should somehow determine if it's running on a laptop and have the appropriate ACPI modules loaded during startup; then we could institute some kind of blacklist for laptops on which ACPI doesn't work. But the current state of affairs is not satisfactory. The documentation for ACPI is atrocious, and users simply won't know to load the ac, battery etc. modules. -- adamw
