Re: SuSE 8.2 and PCG-R505EL

John Andersen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Organization NORCOM
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sunday 01 June 2003 11:04 am, George Silberstern wrote:
> At 11:38 AM 6/1/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >>There's no battery info, no thermal info
> >
> >I don't believe it.
> >
> >I just checked the status of acpid and found it *wasn't* running. As soon
> >as I started it, all the regular ACPI related info appeared!
>
> I test installed 8.2 on my GR390, and I'm still getting the same bit with
> ACPI that always would happen: The Power Applet in KDE insists that ACPI is
> not installed or configured properly...  Please note that I only did a test
> install.  I have not gone much further than that, so it may just be an
> issue of insuring acpid is up and running...

But this is a known problem with kde, and no indication of wether
acpi is working or not.

google up "akpi"   download and install it.  It works where the 
kde one does not.


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