Guest Digitalkid1128 Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 Hey all, I am running MDK 10 and using KDE on my laptop. I have been trying for a week now to get a battery meter or at least figure out some way to check my remaining charge. I have installed acpi and acpid and enabled it both in system services and in the boot loader. I also tried to install kbatt and it returns this error: checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log I am a new-b so this makes little sense to me. If anyone knows of a better battery meter than kbatt-0.11 or knows of a way to check batter status from the command line.....Or ANY way to monitor the battery PLEASE let me know... I have been working along and all of a sudden! BLACK SCREEN! Thanks, digit [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 4, 2004 Report Share Posted July 4, 2004 If you have enabled ACPI and didn't get any errors that should be enough. When you look in your KDE control center (to start it type kcontrol in a run window), powermanagement, laptopbattery. What does it show? Do you get error messages there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogin Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 You could also try klaptop: MENU:System/Configuration/KDE/Powercontrol/Laptop Battery apparently you can also start it like this: % kcmshell laptop maybe someone could enlighten me about kcmshell... what is it?? /m Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 knows of a way to check batter status from the command line..... apm I've set up my laptop with Torsmo, stripped down to only monitor the battery status (updated every 60 seconds so I don't pull the counter unnessesary much). Scrennshot of it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted July 14, 2004 Report Share Posted July 14, 2004 See if it worls command line. open a terminal (konsole) type: $acpi -b mine gives me this: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -b Battery 1: charged, 100% For temp: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -t Battery 1: charged, 100% Thermal 1: ok, 50.0 degrees C :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keymonkey Posted July 29, 2004 Report Share Posted July 29, 2004 All of this works for me, but I still have no Laptop Batter option in KDE Control Center, or a link to the applet. Is there more to do? See if it worls command line. open a terminal (konsole) type: $acpi -b mine gives me this: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -b Battery 1: charged, 100% For temp: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -t Battery 1: charged, 100% Thermal 1: ok, 50.0 degrees C :D :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSS Posted July 30, 2004 Report Share Posted July 30, 2004 In the console do the following... su root urpmi kdeutils-common then go to the control panel under boot and make sure acpi is enabled restart the computer, once rebooted go to configure your desktop and then check in the power control laptop battery should now be functional and the control panel present All of this works for me, but I still have no Laptop Batter option in KDE Control Center, or a link to the applet. Is there more to do? See if it worls command line. open a terminal (konsole) type: $acpi -b mine gives me this: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -b Battery 1: charged, 100% For temp: acdispatcher@arora acdispatcher $ acpi -t Battery 1: charged, 100% Thermal 1: ok, 50.0 degrees C :D :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcnino Posted July 31, 2004 Report Share Posted July 31, 2004 Do you have the "klaptop" package installed? I'm pretty sure that's the one that gives you the taskbar battery monitor, as well as the battery options in the KDE Control Center. Marc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted September 10, 2004 Report Share Posted September 10, 2004 Do you have the "klaptop" package installed? I'm pretty sure that's the one that gives you the taskbar battery monitor, as well as the battery options in the KDE Control Center. It's actually in the 'kacpi' package. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kortty Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 I got my bat info after installing apci, enabling it in bootloader and installing GKrellM. I don't actually care much about those other meters, but bat info and email status on the email server are now my default things to be shown on both desktops. Small little GUI and qute pingu making somersaults when i receive mail. -kort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ansariwn Posted September 25, 2004 Report Share Posted September 25, 2004 I got it working at last! I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE on my laptop (Compaq Evo N1020v). Klaptop was already installed with main installation but it showed 'No Battery' sign. I had to do the following to get it working. 1. Configure Your Computer -> Boot -> DrakBoot -> Configure -> Enable ACPI. Restart your computer after this. 2. Configure Your Computer -> Software Management -> RpmDrake (Install +). 3. Write 'acpi' in the finder. This should bring up two packages called something like a). acpi_0.6.9mdk B). acpi_1.0mdk 4. Install both packages. This would require MDK installation CD/DVD. 5. Restart your computer, Hopefully you should see the correct batter status in the system tray. hth Wamiq w.ansari@gmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epretorious Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 I got my bat info after installing apci, enabling it in bootloader and installing GKrellM. I like the GKrellM applet. It's much more attractive than the icon installed by ACPI. (ACPI must be enabled at boot time for GKrelleM to monitor the battery.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttellefsen Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 (edited) ansariwn, Thanks for the info. I got Klaptop working perfectly now! The only dofference is that I am using 10.1 CE and the ACPI RPMs are of a different version. But it worked fine. Good job! Edited October 21, 2004 by ttellefsen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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