Hello I am running a newish laptop with SuSe 8.1 and KDE and cannot manage the power. The laptop has full ACPI capability. In the Control Centre - Power management it tells me that "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 Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel." After googling and looking at manuals all I can find are either - suggestions that I set acpi = off and apm = on (which seems to be a bit defeatist), - or instructions to change boot loader configuration which I have done setting pci = acpi But nothing changes ... I can't find how to enable 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery'.... And my battery suddenly does not work ... after only 12 months service (just past the guarantee) ... I have a feeling that this may be related. Can anyone please shed some light on this. TIA Norman