APM Gnome battery display

gondoi · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 2:01 am Post subject: APM Gnome battery display

Ok, Got another APM post to go along with the tons already out there.

I have compiled APM into the kernel and installed apmd and it is running. Things shutdown correctly and all that, but the Battery Charge Monitor in Gnome shows that the AC adapter is plugged in.. ok cool.. but I unplug the AC adapter and it still shows that it's plugged in.. Not to mention it shows that there is no battery available.

Another thing I have noticed before when I installed RedHat a long time ago, it did the same thing.. Also, same with Knoppix when I run it.

Here is the output from /proc/apm

snowpatch · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Philadelphia

Does the applet indicate a battery present when the ac is unplugged? On my Inspiron 4000 I get "no battery present" in the applet if the charge is really low. If you pull the battery out and check on the back do you have a button to push with LEDs to indicate charge? Maybe it is an old battery.

gondoi · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:42 am Post subject: umm.. got a prob

Ok, looks like I was hasty in posting that... Well, when I shutdown it didn't power off.
When I had ACPI installed earlier it did.

Sooo... my question now is.... how do I redo things for acpi? do I have to remerge gnome with acpi in the make.conf?

And to answer the question... No it doesn't show battery at anytime... and i'm not sure about the LEDs.. i've never taken it out.
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snowpatch · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 38 Location: Philadelphia

Do you have apm configured still in your kernel? For acpi you will have to re-compile the kernel and also put acpi in your USE flags.

gondoi · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject: acpi

At this moment I do have apm compiled in.. but I have compiled a new kernel with acpi and i'm about to reboot to it...

I have taken out apm from the USE variable and added acpi.

I also re-emerged gnome-applets, I noticed it used the apm variable and it has the battstat applet I am trying to get working.

Here is a new twist though, on the gnome site... the gnome-applets package only has version 2.0.9 of battstat, which has "broken" acpi support. I can't seem to find anywhere what version is in the gentoo ebuild, but I figure it is the same as what is on the gnome site.

One more thing... there is a battstat ebuild, and it is the current 2.0.13 version, but here is what I get when I try to emerge it.