Re: Laptop Battery Status

["Roger Grosswiler" <roger gwch net>]

> Hi Masters,
> Although I'm a newbee to linux, I can see that my laptop battery status is
> not correct in default Fedora's installation (I'm using a compaq presario
> 1200Apr notebook). It shows as "Battery not pressent". I've tried HP
> distribution of Mandrake 9.1 before and there I had the correct battery
> status). Any workaround...........????????????
>
> Thanks & Rgds,
> Zammi
>
>
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Hi,

me, newbie either. Fedora doesn't install with acpi automatically. So, you
need to insert in your /etc/grub.conf at the line, where you see something
like:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ noapic rhgb

you add at the end acpi=on, so you will have something like

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ noapic rhgb acpi=on

it didn't work for my hp xt1000 either before i did this...

cheers,
roger