On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 10:40 +0100, uws wrote: > På Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:38:11AM +0000, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos skrev: > > I've just started up the battery charge status in my laptop but for some > > reason it shows up empty and with an exclamation point next to it. Maybe > > its not being able to calculate the correct battery status, do I need to > > enable anything? > > IIRC the applet uses apm. Do you have apm installed and proper kernel > support for your hardware? Alternatively, as with almost all new laptops, the machine is ACPI, and ACPI isn't enabled. I don't think any of the major distros enable ACPI by default due to how broken it still is. On Fedora Core, you can add acpi=on the kernel boot parameters in /etc/grub.conf. > > mvrgr, Wouter > > -- > :wq mail uws@xxxxxxxxx > > don't just call me pessimist :: try and read between the lines -- tool > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
