-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 February 2003 11:54 am, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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.
That isn't the problem. I have all the modules loaded. It shows that I am pluged in or not BUT it can't get any usefull information. I looked at the acip files under /proc/acpi acpi can't get correct information from the pc but APM worked fine - -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+RVt1sKWd3vub6wURAm7jAJ9siXqZ5YsE5OtbGK1/o9QZDRQYywCgha3j +MrC69M55N02WDesmZFCR7Y= =kU8r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
