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

[Net Llama!]

Yea, it looks like this laptop doesn't support apm, and only acpi:
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=no%20system%20battery&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_ugroup=*linux*&lr=lang_en&num=50&hl=en

On 05/19/03 09:18, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> 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?

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