On Thursday 10 October 2002 20:22, Glen wrote:
On a fresh load of Suse Linux 8.1 containing KDE 3.0.3 on my Dell Inspiron 8000 latptop, the battery meter was "X"'ed out and not displaying correctly. Moreover, if I tried to open the icon, I'd get a message that my ACPI kernel support was only partially enabled. Even building a new kernel with the ACPI support fully in the kernel didn't work.
Many thanks to Derek Fountain who pointed me in the direction of his solution, which is to add:
apm=on acpi=off
to the GRUB menu or lilo.conf file, making them kernel parameters on boot. Booting in this way restored perfect service to my KLaptop battery meter!
Thanks! I had the same problem on my Dell Latitude C600 (after fresh install suse 8.1), changed the Grub menu file and indeed problem solved :-) Peter