Re: ACPI gnome applet for battery

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@wanadoo.fr>]

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)

 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.

Thanks,
Jerome