Guest hayim Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 Hi, sorry for starting *another* ACPI thread but 4 hours of trawling through whats out there hasnt gotten me anywhere. I'm running 10.1 with 2.6.8.1-12mdk kernel, on an Acer Extensa 2308 (im in Australia, so this model may not exist everywhere). Im trying to get power management to work, and the Configure Your Desktop tool in KDE tells me this: Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel. How do i check what i have 'enabled'? where are these kinds of things set? Do I have to rebuild my Kernel? I saw someone saying that installing 2.6.10 fixed their acpi issues, but i cant seem to find much about how a newbie might go about updating to 2.6.10. Thanks for your help, Im really hoping i can get this Linux thing to work, i dont wanna be another run-back-to-windows statistic.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 Install all acpi packages (there are 2 I believe). Open the Mandrake Control Center (MCC), software, install software, searchfor acpi. Then go to the MCC, system, services and make sure the acpi service is running. Then check the kde control center again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hayim Posted April 7, 2005 Report Share Posted April 7, 2005 thanks for your help, devries. rpm -qa | grep acpi gives acpi-0.07-4mdk acpitool-0.2.5-1mdk acpid-1.0.3-1mdk MCC services shows acpid and acpi both as running. cpufreqd is also running, but cpufreq is stopped. If i try to start that one, it says that 'probing cpufreq modules FAILED'. KDE CC still has the same message (both before and after i tried to start cpufreq) Meanwhile, [root@localhost hayim]# acpi -V Thermal 1: ok, 55.0 degrees C [root@localhost hayim]# acpitool -e Kernel version : 2.6.8.1-12mdk - ACPI version : 20040326 ------------------------------------------------------- Battery status : <not available> AC adapter : <not available> Thermal info : ok, 55 C Fan : off Fan : off and [root@localhost hayim]# acpitool -cCPU type : Intel® Pentium® M process CPU speed : 1499.331 MHz Processor ID : 0 Bus mastering control : yes Power management : yes Throttling control : yes Limit interface : yes Active state : C2 hope that tells you something... ps. in directory [root@localhost hayim]# ls /proc/acpiac_adapter/ button/ event info sleep alarm dsdt fadt power_resource/ thermal_zone/ battery/ embedded_controller/ fan/ processor/ wmi/ ac_adapter/ , battey/ and wmi/ are all empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hayim Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 so it seems my ACPI is working, but why is my battery info unavailable?? anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Google brings me this: http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors/msg28343.html Which suggests what I was starting to think myself - the support for your laptop just isn't complete in the kernel itself. Upstream just doesn't have the code to get that information out of your laptop. Unfortunately, if that's the case, there ain't a whole let we can do to help. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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