I am running FreeBSD 6.0 - RELEASE with KDE 3.4 on my ThinkPad R32. I
have been trying to solve a problem that I have with power management
(and even power monitoring) in KDE.
I built my kernel with acpi enabled (using the acpi_ibm module).
However, I see that the laptop battery monitor in KDE control center
does not support acpi. Will this be changed in the future? I found
that running both apm and acpi causes problems on my system.
Namely, if I enable apm in /etc/rc.d, and let the battery monitor work
through there, my system will occasionally return "unknown" for
remaining battery time (even though an integer value percentage is
returned for battery life). This seems to trigger KDE to automatically
log out to the console, regardless of how I configure the battery
monitor power control options.
How can I solve this problem? I would really like to be able to just
run acpi if possible. I did find the xbatt applet, which works with
acpi but it isn't as useful as the battery monitor that KDE comes with.
thank you
Lee Parsons
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