[ale] help mint13 / mate ups not recognized usb cable

[James Sumners]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> Actually, I did try installing apcupsd while running the Mint live DVD.  It didn't seem to have any affect on the mate power manager subsystem.  I was under the impression that using the built in power manager or the apcupsd were two different ways to do the same thing.


As far as I know, the GUI power managers query the daemons for
information about such devices. Why rewrite what is already written?

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