Actions for KLaptop

ruh31 · 02-16-2006, 10:03 AM

Hi everyone!

I am using Debian Etch and KDE on my laptop. The battery monitor provided by Klaptop works great as long as you just look at the percentages of battery load. However, the remaining time is always totally messed up (extremely wrong) and therefore the warnings issued by the program if the battery is low are very confusing. Most often those warnings start when the battery has a load of something like 20%, when the time shows something like 10min left (which is wrong!). Then every single minute another warning message appears for something like 20 or 30minutes until the battery is down to 5% and then, I either turn the laptop off or give it some energy back

So my question is: can I change the settings somehow, so that the warnings do not show up relative to the time left, but rather to the actual percentage of load???

Thanks for any answers!

arsham · 02-17-2006, 03:07 AM

Hi
Go to Control Center > Power control > Laptop battery , in ACPI Config tag , click on Setup Helper Application , then enter your root password , then enable "Enable performance profiles"
You may rerun the control center , go back to that section again , in "Low Battery Warning/Critial" you can change the values you just asked

Regards
Arsham

ruh31 · 02-17-2006, 03:14 AM

Hmmmm ... what is weird: When I click on Setup Helper Application, I am prompted to enter the root password and after doing so, nothing happens. Any ideas?

arsham · 02-17-2006, 03:24 AM

in shell do this:
# modprobe acpi acpi_cpufreq ac battery

what is the brand of your laptop?

ruh31 · 02-17-2006, 03:35 AM

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400. So far I have already had many problems trying to set up wireless components or mobile features like battery or cpu control ...

I tried what you said and this happened:

Code:

# modprobe acpi acpi_cpufreq ac battery
FATAL: Error inserting acpi_cpufreq
(/lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko): 
Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

Then I did dmesg and here are the ACPI lines:

Code:

ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                                 ) @ 0x000f64f0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD  Montara  0x06040000  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1f6e6530
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL  MONTARAG 0x06040000 PTL  0x00000050) @ 0x1f6eaed2
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD  $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1f6eafd8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 INTEL    GV3Ref 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x1f6e6560
ACPI: DSDT (v001 WISTRO FB2I     0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c00)
ACPI: bus type pci registered
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 28)
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:1f.6 disabled
ACPI wakeup devices: 
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRS] (21 C)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRC] (21 C)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKF] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:06.0 disabled
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLP2]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
acpi_cpufreq: Unknown parameter `acpi_cpufreq'

arsham · 02-17-2006, 03:40 AM

seems that you have acpi ac battery modules , but acpi_cpufreq , anyways
try again in control center and see if you can enable the things