the problem your having is you prolly dont' have acpi built into your kernel. you'll have to do that before you'll be able to get such info such as your battery status and what not. hope this helps you out.
Running slackware 9.1 up to current, xfree86 4.4.0, kde 3.2.1 and a 2.4.25 kernel. not willing to upgrade to 2.6 untill it's atleast in it's 2.6.1x release, around 2.6.15 or so i might consider it but untill then i'm just fine with what i got
well technically you can't mount audio cd's. It's just the format the audio is in, there isn't really a filesystem to mount, just like you dont' mount dvd's to play them, you just read them in a raw format.
you try updating xmms? i just upgraded from 3.1.4 to 3.2.1 and i'm having troubles myself. hope you can find an answer to your problem.
well i just decided to upgrade to 3.2.1 today, and when i goto play a video or song, I didn't get sound from my left speaker. Ok, kmixer must have somehow been fubared up so i goto check it out with settings and all, nothing. Everything is setup as it is. So i open up a cmd prompt and do an "alsactl restore" as root as a friend of mine recomended and it worked. Now my question is what is causing my alsa settings to be screwed up? The sound isn't messed up untill i start up KDE so i know it has s...
