Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:05, Jeremy Salch wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Saturday 08 February 2003 02:56 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 19:33, Jeremy Salch wrote: >> > > 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 >> > >> > So you have the battery module loaded, but don't get useful battery >> > power info? Interesting, guess it's a non-compatible ACPI >> > implementation. In that case you need to add the "acpi=off" parameter to >> > lilo.conf, then you'll get APM. >> >> If I set that parameter in lilo will KDE be able to use APM instead of ACPI ? >> It seems that kde3.1 uses ACPI by default
i guess it should detect it or if not i will patch it.... but well we are far at this time of patching user applications. > I don't know - I use GNOME. GNOME behaviour is just to use whatever's > there, so if ACPI isn't there it uses APM - that's the sensible way to > do it, so I guess KDE would do the same. humm fcrozat told me that GNOME didn't do that but only KDE. Well i guess i didn't understand what he say..