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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
