[PLUG] APCUSB utility can't see UPS

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:35:59 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

I just discovered that the LCD display on the UPS cycles through
various displays which show the rest of the things I wanted to know. The
first display just shows the line in voltage, the battery charge %, and
the load as a graphic. I thought that that was all there was. But the
following displays give me the load in watts (58) and the remaining
time in minutes at the current load (86).

The Gnome Power Manager is kind of minimal, but it does give me options
for hibernate or shutdown when the UPS battery is critically low. It
doesn't define "critically low," but I suppose I just need to let it
run down once to test it.

So it turns out I don't need the APCUPS utility after all. It would
still be nice to figure out why it can't see the UPS when Gnome Power
Manager sees it without any problem, but I no longer care very much.