Sounder 6 PPC review

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:12:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> 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 ...

I'm not familiar with that problem; can you explain?

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 - mdz