Re: [twuug] Laptop battery monitor

["Mark A.Davis" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:45:46 -0500
Joe Jordan <joej8515@charter.net> wrote:

> > H8)t
>  I followed Mark's instructions but still no battery monitor...so I
>  looked
> for Klaptop sure enough it was not installed...

Ah HA!
Normally it is automagically installed when a laptop is detected by
harddrake.

> searched for it by  
> name, in description, searched for power & battery no luck.
> So I switched to the MS windows style of repair & reinstalled being more
> careful with my package selection...

Blech!  You should have asked us and waited for a response :)

I also failed to find it by looking for such a package.  Instead, I used
rpmdrake and had it search "in the file names" for klaptop.  It is part of
the  kdeutils-common  rpm.


> still did not see klaptop in
> package list but it magically appeared.

Strange.  I have a feeling the automagical part is changing the "way it
looks"


> After the reinstall the "services" portion of Mandrake control center
> did not list "acpi" or "acpid" battery monitor was working & the fan was
> being controlled. 

You would find the controls under the KDE control center (called
"Configure your desktop"), not the Mandrake control center.  Look under
PowerControl   then Laptop Battery

Is acpi being provided by the kernel? I installed
> "acpi" and "acpid" and notice no difference with them running.

Other than messing with the graphical tools, check the following by hand:

  uname -a

Make sure you are running the 2.6 kernel

In your /etc/lilo.conf, your append line should look like this:
   append=" devfs=mount resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent"

Make sure it does NOT say anything about acpi=ht.

See if the acpi sub-modules are being loaded-  check

lsmod | grep batt

And see if the "battery" module is being loaded.  If not, then manually
add the following module names to your /etc/modprobe.preload file:

ac
battery
fan
thermal
processor
button

You can "modprobe" each one by hand, for now, from the command line to
avoid rebooting.  Once those modules are loaded, you should have things
like /proc/acpi/battery   then go back into the kde control center and
play.

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