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Posted: May 12 2006,15:41 QUOTE
now I am really confused.  I dowladed the wmacpi_1.99r7.dsl extension as you suggested and, as you predicted, DSL 2.3 does not seem to support ACPI because when I run wmacpi from the command line I get "No batteries or ACPI not supported".  But then why in the world do I get a message with "apm: overridden by ACPI" on boot-up ??? ?

you write that battstate.pl (Perl script) will get all battery information from /proc/acpi/battery, if ACPI is running.

Does that mean that there is simply no way of monitoring batteries with DSL 2.3?! (since all ways to monitor require ACPI and since DSL 2.3 does not support ACPI)  ???  :(

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Posted: May 12 2006,16:17 QUOTE
DSL-2.1b uses kernel 2.4.31, DSL-2.3 uses kernel 2.4.26 but no ACPI support in DSL-2.3
Please try DSL-2.1b with option: apm=off acpi=force and use these commands in aterm as root:-
Code Sample
modprobe battery
modprobe button
modprobe fan  
modprobe processor
modprobe thermal
modprobe ac

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Posted: May 12 2006,17:15 QUOTE
the problem with that is that I really, really do not want to come back to DSL 2.2 as I much prefer the (otherwise fantastic) DSL 2.3.  Is there any way at all to monitor batteries (without ACPI) on DSL 2.3?!

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