what to do when apm doesn't see my battery?

[Aaron Grewell]

I'm not sure about RH, but SuSE defaulted to ACPI on my laptop.  Didn't work 
worth a darn, so I set ACPI=off APM=on at kernel load time and that fixed it.  
HTH.

-Aaron

On Sunday 18 May 2003 08:30 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> I've got a shiny new laptop which is working fairly well under RH9.  The
> only bit of weirdness is that apm doesn't recognize that I have a
> battery plugged in, so it can't give me any power readouts.  Now the
> laptop works just fine & dandy, even without AC power, its just that i
> have no way of getting a reading via apm on the amount of charge
> remaining.  Anyone ever run into this before?