Laptop Battery

[Ben Steeves]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:49, Davide Dolcini wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I've a problem with kde and the battery charge indicator. The indicator 
> doesn't recognise my battery and it always says that there's no battery 
> attached to the notebook. I've tried to modify some settings of the 
> indicator in kde control menù, but it doesn't work, maybe that he's 
> searching for a type of battery different from mine, but where i could 
> change it? is there a config file to change?
> 
> I've a Compaq Presario 2700e
> 

I have a similar problem when using ACPI on my IBM ThinkPad.  When I
turn off ACPI (so that APM is used), the battery meter works again.

To turn off ACPI, add "acpi=off" to your grub stanza.  Before making a
permanent change, test it by typing 'A' at the Grub boot screen and
adding it manually.

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