I recently bought an old thinkpad 600x and put slackware 9 on it. It works beuatifully except i cant seem to get the battery monitor (klaptop) working. When i try to configure it, it tells me that i dont have APM or ACPI software installed or i dont have APM support compiled into the kernel. I recompiled the kernel to get apm support in with these options:

CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
# CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

I still can't seem to use klaptop or apmd, which exits iwth the error:

apmd: no APM support in kernel.

has anyone had any experience with getting apmd up on this model of computer? or any other ideas witch may help?

Thanks,

It said APM or ACPI, why did you only compile APM? Go back and compile ACPI