Re: [twuug] Laptop battery monitor

[Joe Jordan <joej8515@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 14:29, H8)t wrote: 
> On Sunday 14 March 2004 10:29 am, Joe Jordan wrote:
> > Thanks to Johnathon & Mark for their work at the install fest!
> >
> > I forgot to get the battery monitor working yesterday, acpi is running
> > and lsmod list the battery module. I know I'm missing something simple.
> > any suggestions?
> 
> Is klaptop installed? Open the package installer from the Mandrake Control 
> Center and use "laptop" as a search term in "descriptions" to see if there is 
> anything that might be useful.
> 
> Also, look at 
> http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration100.html
> for some nice configuration info. The "Setting up the extra mousbuttons on my 
> Logitech MX700 " tip works great!
> 
> -- 
> H8)t
 I followed Mark's instructions but still no battery monitor...so I looked
for Klaptop sure enough it was not installed...searched for it by  
name, in description, searched for power & battery no luck.
So I switched to the MS windows style of repair & reinstalled being more
careful with my package selection... still did not see klaptop in
package list but it magically appeared. During this process I noticed
that the packages selected by default seem to have changed.

After the reinstall the "services" portion of Mandrake control center
did not list "acpi" or "acpid" battery monitor was working & the fan was
being controlled. Is acpi being provided by the kernel? I installed
"acpi" and "acpid" and notice no difference with them running.

Anyway thanks for the help.
Joe


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