RE: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
>Message: 17 >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:22:09 +0100 >From: Andrew Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I've got CentOS 4.4 installed on 3 machines - two laptops and a PC. >Only one, a HP Omnibook 900, shows the graphi

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Andrew Allen wrote: Thanks again, but I can't find anything about power management under Preferences, System Settings or System Tools anywhere on the gnome desktop - so it's still a mystery I'm afraid. I am not at my home office, but my quarterly visit to my division's office. Thus I only ha

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Thanks again, but I can't find anything about power management under Preferences, System Settings or System Tools anywhere on the gnome desktop - so it's still a mystery I'm afraid. Andy On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > oops. > > I think I was looking in the wrong pla

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
oops. I think I was looking in the wrong place. Check out your power management preferences. Is it set to always show the icon? Andrew Allen wrote: Thanks, but how do I install the battery app on the gnome panel? I see that battery.ko is in lib/modules//acpi (together with lots of .png

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Andrew Allen
Thanks, but how do I install the battery app on the gnome panel? I see that battery.ko is in lib/modules//acpi (together with lots of .png images in other folders) but how do I get it working on the gnome panel? Do I have to yum install acpi or what? Thanks, Andy On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:43 -

Re: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Andrew Allen wrote: I've got CentOS 4.4 installed on 3 machines - two laptops and a PC. Only one, a HP Omnibook 900, shows the graphical battery status indicator (in the bottom right of the screen), but the other laptop (a new Dell Inspiron 1501) doesn't show it. Furthermore, the command /usr/bin