battery monitor

[James Wilkinson]

D. D. Brierton wrote:
> The current kernels default to acpi instead of apm for power management.
> I *believe*, although I'm not sure, that if you stop the acpid service
> and start the apmd service then you can use apm for power management.

And use noacpi on the kernel command line (assuming that the computer
has ACPI).

James.

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