On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 11:17, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Thanks for your replies. > > > >>>> > >>>>The applet is in gnome-applets 2.2.2-2 > >>>> > >>> > >>>This battery applet works through APM only (the package depends on the > >>>`libapm' libray) > >>>I am looking for an applet that works through ACPI. > >> > >>You are incorrect. It works (on my computer, right now) with acpi as > >>well. > > > > > > Yes. But I just found out that you need to run kernel 2.4.22 (at least > > in some circumstances). > > with ACPI enabled (and APM disabled)
Indeed. > > Installed it a few minutes ago and wham! the > > battery applet started to work, as did thermal info (with acpi -V). > > > Please can you confirm that this applet takes a lot of cpu times > as on my laptop. > Of course in this case this applet is a contradiction by itself. Well, what is a lot? I think I can confirm this. It takes a constant 3.0% on my 2.8Ghz, which would be about 17% on my previous 500Mhz laptop. I would consider that a lot, yes. Maybe a bug report? David PS: Sorry, I sent this to you personally by mistake. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]