battery/power management on mandrake 9.1

da_zombie · 08-16-2003, 09:10 PM

HELPPPPP!!!!!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! battery /power management does not work on my compaq pressario 2100 AMD 2200 XP+,ATI RADEON Mobility,theres the indication of the battery on the toolbar which is crossed out! it says APM modules not installed.when i checked it out i found both APM and ACPI installed!! and just to be sure i checked the kernel and it was there,i tried reinstalling 2!! my fully charged battery hardly lasts for 30 mins on linux while with windows XP it runs upto 2.5 hours!!! also with linux the laptop heats up tremendously! im sure the linux ppl have got something for this....HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!!!

TB0ne · 08-17-2003, 03:29 PM

Disable APM totally, and use ACPI for management. It's not a good thing to have both enabled. Also ACPI controls other such goodies as the fan and/or other hardware sensors.

Using ACPI solved several problems on my laptop...APM just wasn't worth it.

Brian1 · 08-17-2003, 03:57 PM

If that does not work try the battery display in gkrellm.

id3298 · 08-18-2003, 05:50 PM

hello,
I have a persario 2100, and i also have the same problem. my laptop gets heated up tremendously in 15-20 minutes. I had to disable ACPI while installing mandrake 9.1, as it hanged the laptop during first bootup. How can i install acpi on my laptop any ideas. please help..

Thanks

zLinuxz · 08-19-2003, 10:10 PM

Guys, I feel you all!

I just got my new Fujitsu C2210, which is a Intel m speedStep 2.2ghz, with 60 gigs of space, 520megs of ram, firewire, Dvd writer, Internal Wirelss network card, and all the goodies you can imagine....

Well, I'm running into the same problem, I haven't been able to make Linux manage my power in my laptop.

Same problem, battery lasts very little, while in Windows lasts a lot longer, and there is not automagic control of screen brightness like in Winbloze, nor is there suspend, or any of the at least basic features.

I'm working on it, and I've found so far that for the most part, many BIOS's don't support APM....and that is why APM simply doesn't work.

As for ACPI, it is still under heavy development, and all you will probably get is being able to read the battery level...and maybe some CPU idleing power saving feature

but don't expect much.

Right now I'm trying to check if the ACPI feature will work at all.

I'll let you guys know.

Further development of ACPI is our last hope.

and I still can't make the Internal Wireless network card work!, what a bummer!, Errr!

zLinuxz

Ianed · 08-20-2003, 02:32 AM

Same problem here. I disabled APM (actually made it modular) and recompiled.

Still no luck. I tried 'dmesg|grep -i -C3 acpi' and got:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 00000000000eee00 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000eee00 - 00000000000ef000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ef000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffd0000 - 000000001ffe0000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffe0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fedc0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 131024
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126928 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=307 devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi= off quiet
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
--
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122
ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfcd8a, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge

Of course there is that big old 'ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off)' but just what command line does this refer to? Any ideas?

leonardoce · 08-20-2003, 03:48 AM

In Mandrake 9.1 ACPI is disabled by default...
Edit /etc/lilo.conf (if you use lilo, if you use grub I don't know) and remove the startup option "acpi=off"
Hope this helps,

Leonardo

Bebo · 08-20-2003, 04:51 AM

I don't think it's even activated in the default kernel in Mandrake 9.1. There has been some discussion about this - here, for instance.

da_zombie · 08-20-2003, 02:24 PM

i have given up!!!! after disabling APM,enabling ACPI even recompiling my kernel for that n messing up my system..theres no hope..linux aint for laptops

i tried gkrellm also it shows the something about the battery but thats it..and in gnome battstat will forever show battery charge as 0% even when the charge is OK! theres absolutely no hope left guys! hope 2.6 comes up with something..till then i ll stick with good old XP whenever im on batteries!!

zvandiver · 08-20-2003, 02:56 PM

I have had no problems using SuSE 8.2 on my Compaq 2170. I did have to enable the acpid daemon to get the battery monitor to work. I found a KDE app called aKpi that shows battery usage and also CPU tempature.
Zane

Ianed · 08-20-2003, 10:43 PM

Leonardoce, thanks for the suggestion but lilo.conf didn't even mention acpi before I entered it in, and it still says that! Is there some other place I can look? Oh yeah, I also checked to make sure ACPI was on in that Mandrake control thingy. I think I may just format everything and start from scratch (WinXP just isn't worth the 20 or so gigs it's allotted I figure (that is if I can get acpi working

) I've also heard that compiling a different kernel (other than the one included in the install cds) may be of some help. Oh well, it will have to wait for a little while, time for a 3 day Rave!

zLinuxz · 08-21-2003, 01:04 AM

Okay guys, I did it!, ACPI is working on my laptop

Fujitsu 2210 C series.
Check it out guys!:

Ps_execute: method failed - \_SB_.PCI0.EIO_.FDC_._STA (c14e1428)
Power Resource: found
Power Resource: found
EC: found, GPE 24
ACPI: System firmware supports S0 S3 S4 S5
Processor[0]: C0 C1 C2
dsopcode-0556 [-16] Ds_eval_buffer_field_o: Field size 648 exceeds Buffer size 128 (bits)
Ps_execute: method failed - \_SB_.CMB1._BIF (c15dbda8)
ACPI: AC Adapter found
ACPI: Power Button (FF) found
ACPI: Multiple power buttons detected, ignoring fixed-feature
ACPI: Power Button (CM) found
ACPI: Lid Switch (CM) found
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
i2c-core.o: i2c core module
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:03.0
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,10cf,1130)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.
register_serial(): autoconfig failed
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

Yeah, it picked up my ACPI, finally.
Now, I just need to make some configuration, and it should all be set,.

For those of you who are having trouble, the best thing to do, is to go and download the 2.4.21 kernel, which has an updated ACPI support, and it is bound to work!

Compile your new kernel with ACPI support, and it should work, trust me guys.

Good luck, really!!!

zLinuxz

leonardoce · 08-21-2003, 02:27 AM

Hello,

ACPI is working on my laptop Sony PCG-FR215S with Mandrake 9.1 pre-compiled kernel.....
I've simply enabled acpi, installed acpi packages and using lilo!!
Do you use lilo??
Ianed, could you post your default lilo.conf entry?? Thanks!

Bebo · 08-21-2003, 04:18 AM

Hey, the lilo options should contain "acpi=on". On my laptop, the lilo entry looks like this:

Code:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.25mdkcustom
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.25mdkcustom
append="quiet noapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=on"
vga=788
read-only

weelyjim · 08-21-2003, 02:17 PM

Hi I could not get my battery monitor work ether, it tells me that I have a partial APCI installed, which is strange as it works fine in W2000.
So I just watch the the battery light on my laptop, when it flashes orange I charge the battery, by the way my distro (SuSE 8.1) seems to extend the battey life.