Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: Metad LXDE Setup

[Sam Geeraerts]

Paul Roge wrote:
> > 1) The battery monitor panel item does not display properly.
>
> I think this is the problem: the LXDE battery monitor uses ACPI,
> which isn't monitoring the Yeeloong battery for some reason. APM does
> however. Hardinfo, which was automatically installed with LXDE, does
> monitor the battery. Additionally, I have installed xapm and
> xbattbar, which use APM, as well. I wasn't able to find any
> charge_now file on my system to check the battery status using the
> cat command, however.

I assume you're using kernel 2.6.32. APM is probably no longer available 
if you upgrade to a newer version: 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2010-05/msg00043.html