On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 22:20, Chris Frederick wrote: > Just got Mandrake 9.1 installed on my laptop. acpi comes with the > distribution, so I was hoping to get my laptop working with power > management. But it seems a bit more needs to be done. I've gotten acpi > and acpid up and running, but nothing seems to be happening. Anyone > have any experience with this? The main thing I want working is the > battery monitor, hopefully even have it work with gkrellm. > > Here's some info in case it helps: > > Laptop is a Compaq Presario 2710us > > #cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state > present: no > #cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT2/state > present: no > > #acpi -V > No support for device type: thermal > AC Adapter 1: on-line > > #acpi -s > Battery 1: slot empty > Battery 2: slot empty > > I've tried unplugging the ac adapter and running off the battery for a > while, but the only thing that changed was that the "acpi -V" command > changed the adapter status to "off-line". Taking the battery out didn't > change anything. > > Many thanks for any help. Never mind. I rebooted the laptop to fix the default display manager (kept dieing on a logout, and I prefer gdm anyway) and gkrellm found the battery, and is showing the charge and state (pluged in, charging, etc). Any more info on acpi would still be helpfull. I'm still not sure how to set up the hybernate/sleep (I want to kil it, they always annoy me), and the auto shutdown at X% battery power. Thanks. -- Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list