On Thursday 21 June 2007 3:31:39 pm Eric wrote: > At 03:47 PM 6/21/2007, alan wrote: > >> Preferences->More Preferences->Power Management > > Good afternoon, Alan. > > I don't have anything like that, either in KDE or Gnome, in FC5 or F7. > > In F7 the closest thing I have is: > > Settings->Power Control->Laptop Battery > > ... which just seems to apply if I'm running a laptop (I'm not), and anyway > there isn't anything there that does power control. I click on the "Power > Control" tab and I get: "Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI > installation, ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were > not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adapter' and 'Control Method Battery' > and then rebuild your kernel.". > > I'm running the stock 2.6.21-.3228.fc7 kernel. > > In FC5 / KDE I can find nothing at all that looks like it has anything to > do with power control (this is also on a desktop machine, not laptop, with > kernel 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5). > > If you have Preferences->More Preferences->Power Management on yours, could > you please right click on it and let me know what application it calls up > (presumably in /sbin or /usr/sbin)? Then I can try calling it up from the > command line (if I have it). In KDE, have you tried: Configure Desktop > Display > Power Control tab - unselect Enable Display Power Management
