APCI v. APM for laptops Was RE: [NBLUG/talk] Fujitsu P2120

[Doug Palmer]

My problem isn't that severe, but it is annoying.

Basically, if I run the laptop on battery power, the battery meter
reports that:
A) I'm plugged in and running on line power.
And
B) I'm not charging the battery because
C) There isn't any battery in the system!

Is this just one of those things where MS is better than Linux, or am I
missing something?

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-admin at nblug.org [mailto:talk-admin at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Turner
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 7:46 PM
To: talk at nblug.org
Subject: Re: APCI v. APM for laptops Was RE: [NBLUG/talk] Fujitsu P2120


On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:21, Doug Palmer wrote:
> Since the subject came up, can you guys point me at a HOWTO for this? 
> I've got a pile of Dell Inspiron 1100's that need to run Linux. I've 
> got RedHat 9 running on mine OK, but apm is way wrong.

I had a problem with apm on the IBM Thinkpad R31.  When I ran APM in X
(like a battery meter or something), the mouse would go crazy.  I
eventually got to the point where I opened a terminal to run 'apm', if I
wanted to check it at all.  Or left it plugged in most of the time.

Jeremy
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