Re: [LUG] Battery Monitoring on laptop

[Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Johnson wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
Thanks for the advice David,

I put the 2.4 kernel on smply because I'm running out of hair to tear 
out getting the trackpad to work with a 2.6 kernel.  I'll give your 
advice a try with the battery.

Kind regards,

Julian

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