Sounder 6 PPC review

Colin Watson cjwatson at flatline.org.uk
Wed Aug 25 12:12:37 CDT 2004


On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:19:33AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:12:07AM +0100, David Miller wrote:
> > The battery meter applet in the panel didn't work; it always showed a 
> > dead battery, even with the machine plugged in.  "modprobe apm_emu" on 
> > the command line immediately fixed this.
> 
> This seems to be a PowerPC-specific thing; should this module always be
> loaded, or should the battery applet have direct support for the native
> power interface?

Sounds like the notorious /dev/pmu problem to me ...

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson at flatline.org.uk]




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