Bernie Gardner <bernie.gardner@verizon.net> writes:

I have a new Toshiba notebook with SuSE working very well for the most part. But I can't seem to get the power meter in kde to work right, or more generally the apmd system. apm reports "AC on-line, no system battery" regardless of whether the computer is plugged in or not. There is never any indication of state of charge, or even the existence of a battery. I've tried the various combinations of apm and acpi in the kernel startup with no success.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

The klaptopdaemon for 8.1 was compiled to look in the wrong place for battery information -- there is an updated kdeutils-laptop which might address this problem. (I say might, because SuSE has not updated their known problems website in quite a while so I am just guessing that that is why they came out with a new version.)