I’ve installed openSUSE 11.3 updated to KDE 4.6 Beta 2 on an Acer Aspire One.
To my surprise and delight and without my intervention, for the first time ever the battery applet is now all singing all dancing; showing charge state including a little red bar when charge is low.
However on a MSI Mega Book, x86_64 architecture, I don’t get the same level of joy, only an indication seemingly determined at log in, that the AC adaptor is plugged in (which unfortunately remains, even if I unplug the adaptor).
Other than architecture I can’t spot the difference between the two installs.
however, that said: it is no surprise that the exact same operating
system software on two very different hardware sets might result in
two very different user experiences…
that is to say: if the MSI motherboard’s chip set and BIOS combo does
not ‘report’ battery/power state data in the same way (if at all) to
the kernel, then you will not get the same display on your screen…
perhaps you need a different driver…perhaps the driver for the MSI
board has never been crafted…ask MSI for a solution…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
I feel annoyed that I can’t put my wide range of languages on stupid
Facebook. For example, I speak Sarcasm, fluently spoken and written,
and Various Forms of Geek…