In message <200310312114.46988.abuse@spamalicious.com>, "Charles M. Hannum" wri
tes:
>I've imported the latest version of the ACPI-CA from Intel.  This, plus some 
>bug fixes from me and Christos, should make ACPI work much more reliably on 
>many systems.
>
>Even if you were already successfully running ACPI, please retest with the new 
>version and confirm whether or not it works.
>
>I can personally vouch that it works on a Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop, correctly 
>reporting battery and thermal data.  :-)

Is there any support for things like xbattbar yet?  I was thinking at one
point that an "acpiapm" driver, which supports APM calls for old software,
would be awfully useful.

-s