-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 February 2003 10:55 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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.
I Totally agree. I use a Inspiron 8200 and ACPI loads but it doesn't show any battery status or really anything. So i never know how much battery power I have left or anything. But APM worked fine - -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RT1gsKWd3vub6wURAkuwAJ9n1104j7RJA+8DmuIbXmhlsU853wCdEMQ+ SjHIf56cUBWnkGAtPKKkwAE= =AFK/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
