The power management on my NEC versa 6050MX portable works fine if I restore the machine from the NEC restore CDROM (win95). Once I've installed Linux 6.0 the machine will suddenly drop to a lower percentage of charge and then move down until it hits zero never to move upwards again, even when off. Booting back up into windows (LILO, dual partitioned disk) does NOT fix the problem. Only restoring from the NEC restore CDROM fixes it. Going into the Setup at boot doesn't seem able to fix it either. I'm using the apmd update 3.0beta5-8.i386.rpm and this did not change things (though I haven't done a full restore of the machine since updating to 3b5-8 because this requires a full re-install of linux :-(. Any ideas? help much appreciated. Any known ways to reset the nvram or whatever without wiping out my disk? Not a PC or Linux guru, just a mac guy trying to branch out :-) peace, Tyler, mconsult Oh, looks like I'm using 2.2.5-15 kernal (file vmlinux-2.2.5-15 found
I returned the machine to NEC and they claimed that the charging board was defective (it only sometimes worked in Windows as it turned out). SO, I do not think this is a bug in RedHat Linux. Thanks