On Wednesday 02 April 2003 03:53 pm, John Birkhead wrote:

Hi, I just installed 8.1 on an IBM 600X laptop and the although the battery appears on the KDE toolbar there is a red cross thru it.

Clicking on the cross tells me that ACPI is not correctly installed - 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' need to be enabled and my kernel rebuilt.

The package apmd appears to be installed (v.3.0.2-184) but starting or stopping the service gives a 'not supported by kernel' error. SuSE Help doesn't seems to help much.

I beat my head on this one for a few hours last week... If ACPI is enabled, then APM will be disabled. You need to disable ACPI when loading the kernel, or APM will be disabled during the boot sequence and loading the module and starting the daemon will fail during the rc. I appended this to my kernel boot parameters: acpi=off apm=on If you need help setting that, let me know and I'll point you to the right place. Also, check out the docs for APM in /usr/share/doc/packages/apmd for more detailed information. They proved to answer most of the answers I had. SuSE does an incredible job with the hardware setup, even the laptops. The only two items I had to investigate myself where related to power management and sound. Both of those where even kernel parameter related, and not missing packages -or- misdetected hardware. Go SuSE! =) Good luck, -j -- Where zen ends, the ass kicking begins.