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Old 03-20-2006, 05:32 AM   #1
LinuxLala
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acer laptop battery indicator


Hello,

I have a Acer travelmate 2312. The model doesn't help much as Acer has this uncanny habit of renaming their machines and selling them with slightly different specs in different countries. Anyway...

I am running Ubuntu Breezy and the battery indicator on gnome does not work. It never has. So, I finally decided to look deeper into the problem.

I looked into /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1 and this is what state told me

Code:
linuxlala@sarek:/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1$ cat state
present:                 yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status
Wonder why that is. Then I read some more and found that some Acer laptops have a Smart Battery System and it might be because of that.

Is there any way of fixing this? If compiling the kernel, etc. are the only solution, then could I please get a step-by-step here. Something about recompiling the kernel really scares me.

EDIT: I keep running into stuff that says I need to recompile the kernel. Like I said, I need step-by-step here please.

Last edited by LinuxLala; 03-20-2006 at 05:35 AM.
 
Old 03-20-2006, 06:53 AM   #2
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I have a travelmate 2410 and the battery monitor works fine out of the box using Mandriva and Suse. I use kpowersave to monitor the battery level. It could be an Ubuntu specific problem.
 
Old 04-16-2006, 07:39 PM   #3
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Hi there.
I have an Acer Aspire 3610 ... it has "smart battery" technology. I am running simply mepis. I started kpackage, searched for kpowersave and installed the package. Now I have a very welcome icon showing me my battery status in all of its glory...

ALLLLRIIIGHT !!!!!
 
Old 04-16-2006, 11:10 PM   #4
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try modprobe battery

if it tells you that the module isn't found, you may need to recompile your kernel to include these...I had to do this on my Toshiba...

good luck
 
Old 04-17-2006, 07:29 AM   #5
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Unhappy re: modprobe idea

Thanks but no thanks.....
I'm alergic to recompiling the kernel; whole lotta work - very little payback. I like the idea of just installing a package and it works. Installation of the package took about two minutes .... thanks anyway though.
 
  


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