Re: Battery monitor applet fails[solved]

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Hi Robert,

I have solved the problem. I found out that my laptop didnt support apm,
but acpi. The service was acpid was already running in runlevel 3 ,5. I
added acp=on to my grub.conf at the bootline, everything works fine now.

Best regards,

Davy

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 02:18, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 06:03, Davy Obdam wrote:
> > Hi people,
> > 
> > I have installed Fedora Core 1 on my laptop, install went fine. However
> > i cant get my battery monitor applet to work. If i try to add it to my
> > panel i get the following error:
> > 
> > The Battery Charge Monitor applet appears to have died unexpectedly
> > 
> > Reload this applet?
> > 
> > Does anybody have experienced the same problem? Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Davy,
> 
> What happens when you reload it?
> 
> Battery status monitor v2.4.1 is running fine on my ThinkPad A22p. You
> should have at least apmd-3.0.2-20 installed, and probably acpid-1.0.2-5
> as well. I'm running both acpid and apmd services 'on' in runlevels 3-5.
> 
> When I run apm at a command prompt I get:
> 
>      $ apm
>      AC on-line, battery status high: 100%
> 
> And thanks to Vladimir Kosovac, once I ran:
> 
>      # chmod u+s /usr/bin/apm
> 
> running 'apm -s' as myself suspends my laptop very nicely.
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 
> 
> 
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