Gnome battery monitor / ACPI

patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:28 am Post subject: Gnome battery monitor / ACPI

Hello,

I just got a Toshiba A25 laptop and installed Gentoo (what else?) on it. Now, I know that the battery monitor in gnome-applets-2.4 is supposed to work fine with ACPI right out of the box, but mine simply doesn't.

ACPI appears to be working fine. I've got "alarm", "info", and "state" in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1, and the acpi program returns helpful information like:

Battery 1: charging, 87%, 00:29:53 until charged

But the icon sits there, reading an empty battery, with a red exclamation point. Mousing over the battery icon produces a message that says "Battery: 0% (High)". Mousing over the exclamation point produces a message that says "System is running on battery power" whether it is or not.

I'm running with kernel 2.4.20-gentoo-r8 and Gnome 2.4. Anybody have an idea what's going wrong?

Patrick
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duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 6:46 am Post subject:

Yeah, I did that too. It didn't seem to help. Plus it knocked out my sound for some reason. I'll try again and post back.

Patrick
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patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:19 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, running with kernel 2.4.22 doesn't help the problem. I still get the same behavior. This is frustrating because I can see all the correct values in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state. Why can't the battery monitor?

Any other advice is greatly appreciated.

Patrick
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patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:17 pm Post subject:

Okay. I did some code hacking and found out that things were failing because /proc/acpi/ac_adapter didn't exist. So I tried:

modprobe ac

and got:

/lib/modules/2.4.22-2.4.22/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o: init_module: No such deviceHint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22-2.4.22/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-2.4.22/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-2.4.22/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.o: insmod ac failed

I'm going to try compiling the battery and ac modules straight into the kernel to see if that helps. Any ideas as to why this module failed to load?

Thanks,

Patrick
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patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject:

That did it. Works now.
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