Re: ACPI support in Gnome

2003-02-25 Thread Arthur Mueller
Hm, I'm myself not a linux expert, and, more over, am using KDE. I'm not experienced with Gnome, so I'm sorry. At least I found out the following: in order for applications to control battery status, they must be able to get the infos from the /proc/acpi directory. If you compiled ACPI battery sta

Re: ACPI support in Gnome

2003-02-24 Thread Rodrigo Pereira
Arthur, This acpi tool, akpi can be used in redhat ? In gnome 1.4 there is an applet that controlls the battery status, but it doesn't work with acpi. I search in the net about an applet with acpi support on gnome 1.4 and 2.0 but didn't find out. I saw some applets in some pages that has this s

Re: ACPI support in Gnome

2003-02-23 Thread Arthur Mueller
Dear Rodrigo, though I've no solution perhaps I can give you a hint. Mandrake has just cool tools built into their latest release, i.e. they are the only ones offering a KDE applet monitoring battery status when acpi is activated. This applet is called kacpi. See rpmseek.net. No idea, wheather eq

ACPI support in Gnome

2003-02-19 Thread Rodrigo Pereira
Folks, I installed Red Hat 7.3 on my laptop with Gnome 1.4. My laptop has a ACPI power management, so I had to recompile the kernel. My kernel is 2.4.20 and it recognizes ACPI, but the gnome battery applet didn't. Do you know if gnome 2.0 that comes with Red Hat 8 has a battery applet that supp