Thanks, I'm getting a little closer to fixing this. Made sure acpi=yes in lilo then ran /sbin/lilo as root, installed the packages and then rebooted. acpi was working somewhat, it could tell when I had the AC plugged in and when it was on battery, but it could not read the battery charge level and when I ran the following it did not seem to detect the battery
]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state present: no After this I found someone with the same laptop Dell Inspiron 1100 who had success with Debian and 2.5 kernel. He had stated and Sourceforge that I needed to patch my DSDT for this Dell system so I tried but now I'm again looking at the battery with a red x through it on Klaptop and now /proc/acpi/battery/ is empty, no BAT1 directory The DSDT patch that I downloaded was against linux-2.4.21-rc1 acpi2003-4-24, anyone think I need to update the acpi version or kernel that bamboo comes with? Regards, Matt Osborne Electrical/Computer Engineering Christian Brothers University Memphis, Tennessee On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Nisco wrote: > 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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