Re: acpi trouble
the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's charging/discharging (even at very low levels). Does it work when the charging/discharging events are triggered directly by Gnome? (e.g., if you tell the battery icon on the systray to be visible just on charge/discharge). i haven't tested it yet. i've used xfce (now fluxbox) and the plugin worked. but i don't know how it works. does it use acpi events, or does it independently checks the status of the battery? (as an.. user level daemon?) since those events are created by the kernel ( i'm using a vanilla 2.6.32-5, the battery module is auto loaded) and since the status of the battery (in /sys/BAT0) is indeed updated every 30 s (or so), the questions are: 1) how do i force the kernel produce those events? is there a way? 2) shoud i consider an upgrade of the bios? 3) what about other laptops? do anybody share this problem? I guess the events should be automatically detected by the kernel. If they're not, maybe something is broken (DSDT tables, ACPI BIOS...). Do you have loaded eeepc_laptop module? :-? can't check that now, but i'll do that later. yesterday, btw, i tried to have a look at the kernel configuration.. I would also post this message into Debian eeepc devel mailing list, it's quite possible you can hit more replies on this matter in there: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/ Greetings, thanks for your reply :) -- Matteo Giani http://www.skylarkofspace.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d622010.9050...@pcteor1.mi.infn.it
acpi trouble
hi, i've an eeepc 1005HA with squeeze, working like a charm. i know there are tools (e.g for gnome, etc) that monitor the status of the battery and can be configured to gently shutdown the pc when the battery level is low. i simply want to do exactly the same, using acpi. a quite simple task, i'd say. so i installed the package eeepc-acpi-tools (1.1.11), i added to the script /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh (which already handles battery* events as i saw in /etc/acpi/events/battery) some rows, and now the script does his job. the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's charging/discharging (even at very low levels). since those events are created by the kernel ( i'm using a vanilla 2.6.32-5, the battery module is auto loaded) and since the status of the battery (in /sys/BAT0) is indeed updated every 30 s (or so), the questions are: 1) how do i force the kernel produce those events? is there a way? 2) shoud i consider an upgrade of the bios? 3) what about other laptops? do anybody share this problem? have a nice day! :) -- Matteo Giani http://www.skylarkofspace.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5fd4a1.6040...@pcteor1.mi.infn.it
Re: acpi trouble
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:33:05 +0100, Matteo Giani wrote: (...) the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's charging/discharging (even at very low levels). Does it work when the charging/discharging events are triggered directly by Gnome? (e.g., if you tell the battery icon on the systray to be visible just on charge/discharge). since those events are created by the kernel ( i'm using a vanilla 2.6.32-5, the battery module is auto loaded) and since the status of the battery (in /sys/BAT0) is indeed updated every 30 s (or so), the questions are: 1) how do i force the kernel produce those events? is there a way? 2) shoud i consider an upgrade of the bios? 3) what about other laptops? do anybody share this problem? I guess the events should be automatically detected by the kernel. If they're not, maybe something is broken (DSDT tables, ACPI BIOS...). Do you have loaded eeepc_laptop module? :-? I would also post this message into Debian eeepc devel mailing list, it's quite possible you can hit more replies on this matter in there: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.19.22.48...@gmail.com
