Re: [twuug] Laptop battery monitor

[Joe Jordan <joej8515@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 09:30, Mark A.Davis wrote:
> 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.
I thought I tried that option.
> 
> > 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
 yes 2.6.-4mdk
> In your /etc/lilo.conf, your append line should look like this:
>    append=" devfs=mount resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent"
It does
> Make sure it does NOT say anything about acpi=ht.
no mention of acpi
> See if the acpi sub-modules are being loaded-  check
> lsmod | grep batt
they are

So with the 2.6 kernel you don't need the additional "acpi" and
 "acpid" packages. I removed them and things are still working fine.
Thanks for the help! 
Joe


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