Guest mod1o Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Hi, I am having problems getting acpi to show my battery status on my laptop which runs Mandrake 10.1, 2.6.8.1-10mdk. I have got acpi enabled in the boot loader setting. Also in my chkconfig --list I have acpi and acpid running in levels 2345. An lsmod also shows that the acpi modules have been loaded into the kernel with processor, fan and thermal listed, 'battery 7044 0' is also displayed. I have klaptop installed and it displays the battery icon in the panel but when I click on it it says 'No Battery' in the menu and when I move the pointer over it just read 'running on batteries --1% charged' no matter if the battery is full or not. When I enter acpi -b at the command line nothing is displayed. Any ideas what the problem could be? Cheers [moved from Hardware by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted January 14, 2005 Report Share Posted January 14, 2005 First make sure its running OK. as root: #/etc/init.d/acpi restart see if there is any errors. Also what command did you place into your boot loader? maybe post it here. What is your system setup? Laptop type? may also check your dmesg for errrors #dmesg Welcome to the MUB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mod1o Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Thanks for the reply >>First make sure its running OK. >>as root: >>#/etc/init.d/acpi restart >>see if there is any errors. This doesn't report anything so then I do #/etc/init.d/acpi status this returns Modules Loaded: nothing but I definitely have acpi and acpid starting at runlevels 2345. acpid seems to be running ok >>Also what command did you place into your boot loader? maybe post it here. My lillo.conf contains the following image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=nomount acpi=on splash=silent" vga=788 read-only I have not enabled "force no APIC" or "force no local APIC" as I'm unsure what they are >>What is your system setup? Laptop type? My laptop is an Ergo laptop (you may not have heard of the brand) but it is a 1.700Mhz Pentium M with 1GB RAM, Radeon Mobility 9600 Graphics card, dual booting Windows XP and Mandrake. The hardware seems to have been detected ok by Mandrake. >>may also check your dmesg for errrors >>#dmesg Yeah, I have some errors here: ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node f7f39c80), AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE That ACPI-1133 error is listed a lot but really not sure how to resolve it. Any ideas?? >>Welcome to the MUB Thanks again!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted January 21, 2005 Report Share Posted January 21, 2005 May seem odd but did you install the acpi / acpid packages? With it being in the runlevels that may seem the case. Does it give you anything when you type: #acpi -a What you may want to do is check out your acpi info via the /proc directory. Let me direct you toward my thread "Demystifying the /proc" what you would want is to "cat" the /proc/acpi directory. Have fun: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17747 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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