Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 21:05, Jeremy Salch wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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..


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