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> > The 'big' BL3 kernel does not have apm support,
> > which you probably need.

Just apm support may be enough to provide battery information.
If you can learn to boot with loadlin, you can try out various kernels 
from other sources (though they won't work with the BL modules). 
Slackware probably has something with APM support, for instance.

> Thanks for all of that ... but i'm still enough
> of a Linux newbie that i have never successfully
> compiled any downloaded programs. I've always
> gotten new software in the bigger Linuxes by
> using the regular package managers. I know that
> this is not an option in BL!
I taught myself.  First install the required compiler (gcc) and libraries 
as listed at the BL site.  Get source code, type ./configure, and make, 
and sometimes it actually works without other changes.

> > A battery indicator seems like a useful tool for BL
> > since it is aimed at
> > laptops (but none of my older laptops have
> > chargeable batteries).
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> Considering the great deal that i got on this
> Compaq (only US $22 on Ebay, $35 total with
> the shipping charges), i was very surprised to
> find not only a nicely-loaded install of Win95,
> but also a very decent battery! I can actually
> use this machine for well over an hour on battery
> alone!

The battery would cost more than that, congrats.
We have one with a 2 minute battery, the others totally dead.
Which may be why people gave them to us free (along with dead hard disk 
etc.).
Sindi
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