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 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.
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adamw


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