Fwd: Battery Status Applet in Gnome

[Anonymous]

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From: Chris Bozic <cbozic at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:56:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Battery Status Applet in Gnome
To: Chris McLeod <mcleodchris at gmail.com>


Boom!  And just like that, loading the apm module worked for me!  :)
This is a great mailing list!

Thanks,
Chris

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 03:53:22 -0400, Chris Bozic
<cbozic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.  Before today, my older model HP Pavilion
> laptop was running fedora core 1 and didn't have any problems with
the
> battery status detection.  Having said that, the tons of kernel
> patching that comes standard with fedora is one of the reasons I
chose
> to wipe it off this machine and give ubuntu a try.  This laptop
is
> actually one that will eventually end up with the power on and the
lid
> closed 99% of the time because I intend to use it as a home http
and
> ftp server that doesn't suck up a bunch of power.  So the battery
> status monitor isn't a huge priority for me.  I just thought I
would
> bring it up in the spirit of helping out a new distro and in case
> someone had a quick answer that wasn't listed in the mailing list
> archives.  I'll hit google when I get a chance for this one. 
Right
> now, I'm having a hard time closing the lid on my new ubuntu
> experience.  I'm having too much fun playing with this distro.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:29:27 +0100, Chris McLeod
<mcleodchris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What make of laptop do you have?
> > Some laptops have a buggy ACPI implementation, so Linux can't
monitor
> > the information. For example, my laptop (Samsung X10) is one
of them.
> > There are a number of different patches that fix different
problems
> > with ACPI, that require you to patch/compile a new kernel.
One of the
> > more common fixes is this patch:
http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml. It
> > allows you to load a new DSDT.aml file at boot time to fix
the
> > problems.
> > Google away to see if you can find any other Linux users that
have had
> > the same problem and fixed it, to see which patch they've
applied.
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:34:01 -0400, Chris Bozic
<cbozic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My battery status applet doesn't seem to be functioning
on my laptop
> > > install of ubuntu.  It shows that it's running on 0%
battery power
> > > even when it's plugged in a fully charged.  I've tried
restarting my
> > > acpid but that doesn't seem to help.  I've also added
acpi=on to my
> > > kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst just to make sure but
still no
> > > luck.  Any help would be appreciated!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> > >
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> > >
> >
>

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