hi

i have a dell inspiron 2600 with mandrake 10 official

after install i had an icon near the clock with a plug etc for klaptop setting. When i right click on it and go to laptop setting and then the 'power control' tab it give me this mesage:
If you make /usr/bin/apm setuid then u will also be able to choose suspend and standby... blah blah

now i then went and installed apm and it still gives me the same thing.

i am also not sure whether my fan comes on or not (with windows it came on when it was need which was not very often) i haven't heard it come on in linux yet thou(that is not to say for sure that it does not)

anyway i also installed the wmapm that does not do anything aother than flash a red light and when type apm in the console it gives a message:
AC on-line, no system battery

what is going on here? i have searched thru the forum and found someone else with a similar prob but there was no real answer

thanks in advance
graham

Re: SETUID

It's asking you to set the UID bit on the apm file using chmod to permit the apm program to be run by a non-privaleged user... e.g. someone other than root.

Re: FAN

Linux is MUCH smarter about CPU utilization than Windows, in that it puts the CPU into a halted or wait state whenever the processor goes into an idle loop.

The effect of this is that the CPU consumes less power and produces far less heat.

In turn your fan WILL NOT come on until you do something that kicks up utilization for a protracted period of time.

This is completely normal.

Re: APM

You do not have all of the apm modules installed or being loaded at startup.

Also the apm service is probably not being run, check the services in the MCC.

Your laptop may not fully support APM under Linux. It may use acpi instead.

thanks for the reply

i have got suspend and standby working -> just had to press the 'Setup Helper Application' button in the 'APM Config' tab in the klaptop option
any way there is still a few probs like when it goes into standby i can get it out :-/

also it doesn't tell me what level my battery is or how much time i have left

thanks
graham

i did also click the "Start Battery Monitor' in the battery tab and that did nothing

I run madriva 10.2, it would never scale my cpu but the battery monitor worked....then I upgraded my klaptop to the newest version that the mandriva club had, now the cpu mods load but the battery monitor is gone, and clicking start battery monitor doesn't work....but I want that back in my tray so I hope someone has this figured out.