On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 17:24, Jeremy Salch wrote: > -----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
See what I wrote. You need to load some modules to get the functionality. For battery power monitoring, load "battery" and "ac", then the GNOME panel applet should monitor power as normal (I dunno if the KDE applet supports ACPI, but I guess it does). There's others that may do things, depending on your system - button, thermal and some others. To have them load on boot, just add the module names (nothing else) as lines in the file /etc/modules. The *only* way I found this out, though, was from this list - it just doesn't seem to be documented anywhere on the net. -- adamw
