Il mar, 2003-06-17 alle 08:51, Matt Osborne ha scritto: > Hi-- I've read through the mailing lists and searched for two days now > for a solution to my laptops power management. I went into lilo.conf and > set acpi=yes and rebooted, but I'm not quite sure what to do from here. > Do I need to apply the patch found on Sourceforge or was bamboo's kernel > already patched? Any help _very_very_ appreciated!
I know your feeling... I had the same problem :) Well, try to set acpi=on instead of acpi=yes first. You also have to install 2 mandrake packets is you did not do so, they are: acpi-0.6-5mdk acipid-1.0.1-3mdk Reboot(to append the right acpi=on string on the kernel) once you did so you try ]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state and it should give something like this present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: discharging present rate: unknown remaining capacity: 4011 mAh present voltage: 9600 mV Here you can reamaining capacity in milliampere another useful command is ]#acpi -V which gives you other informations: Thermal 1: ok, 70.0 degrees C AC Adapter 1: off-line Once acpi is up and running you could use Klaptop to have an userfrienly interface for your battery monitoring. Good luck! I have an Acer Aspire 1300XC and what I tould you above works for my laptop... give a try :) Cesare
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