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On Sunday 25 July 2004 23:14, Julian Hall wrote:
Does anyone have suggestions please to make sure MDK is seeing my battery and bothering to charge it? Normally the LED flickers when it's charging, but it's off now.
The OS shouldn't be at all involved in actually charging the battery. Most likely the OS just makes the LED flicker when it is charging, so the fact that it's not flickering doesn't mean that it isn't charging. You definitely want to go with ACPI rather than APM. You can get the battery applet back by finding the appropriate option in the KDE control centre (under Power Control -> Laptop Battery). I seem to remember that I made ACPI battery monitoring work with Mandrake 9.2 by passing "acpi=ht" to the kernel via the LILO config file. You would probably be better off with a 2.6 kernel, but getting it working with any Mandrake 9.x release is a rather time-consuming task. Hope this helps, David. -- David Johnson http://www.david-web.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.