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Thought I might start a thread for questions and tips since this is now part of the DSL base.

I have a question about the Battery. I did some googling but can't get it to work. I installed the latest RC on a laptop but the battery field is blank. I did not boot with any special boot codes except vga=normal. I tried some tweaking with no luck.

Any ideas?

Chris

Battery meter working fine on my apm capable laptops.
My dmesg shows:
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)

And a ps shows:
dsl@box:~$ ps aux | grep apm
root 991 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW 13:43 0:00 [kapmd]

A friend of miine, who has a much newer laptop, had use the boot option of noacpi

I tried the things you mentioned. I see apm in dmesg but it says override by acpi even though I have noacpi in the boot code? Any other ideas?

Adjust your bios?

No power management in the bios. I tried the acpi dockapp but tells me no battery detected and the apm dockapp tells me apm is not supported in the kernel. Maybe a bios upgrade is in order (Inspiron 2500)

Chris

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