[ltp] Does APM still work on 2.6?

Johannes Rieken linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 15 May 2004 17:32:25 -0800


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Am Fri, 14 May 2004 16:59 schrieb Aaron Mulder:
> 	So I installed SuSE 9.1.  Curiously, while it included ACPI by
> default, it didn't install the acpid package.  Well, no matter, I disabled
> ACPI.
>
> 	APM works well at suspending and resuming, the key for me.  But
> there is one problem.  Well, two, but one was easy -- I installed the
> "apmd" package.  Now I can at least tell how much battery life is left.
> But I miss the little KDE system tray icon that shows the battery life
> from apm/apmd.  I've tried "kcmshell laptop" and "klaptop_check", and
> neither seems to bring back the icon.  Any ideas?
>
Hi Aaron,=20

the disabled battery icon seems to be a KDE 3.2.2 bug. This workaround:=20
http://guru.linuxbe.org/blog.php fixed it for me.=20

Cheers, Johannes

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