Battery will not charge in hoary, works in suse:(

krisealv · 03-31-2005, 04:44 PM

Just installed Hoary and everything works, it is the best distro I have ever used for this machine (dell 500m) and everything works, including suspend to ram (after some fiddling)

I'm using ubuntu hoary (updated through apt) with kubuntu

MY BATTERY WILL NOT CHARGE!!! this means that all my efforts are in vein!!!!

this is my lsmod output:

Code:

 Module                  Size  Used by speedstep_centrino      8052  1 proc_intf               4004  0 cpufreq_powersave       1632  0 cpufreq_userspace       4348  1 cpufreq_ondemand        6300  0 freq_table              4036  1 speedstep_centrino pcmcia                 22692  2 i915                   20224  1 drm                    67284  2 i915 video                  15940  0 battery                 9988  0 container               4320  0 button                  6480  0 pcc_acpi               11008  0 sony_acpi               5928  0 ac                      4676  0 ipv6                  265984  8 af_packet              22504  2 e100                   34976  0 mii                     4960  1 e100 ipw2100                87100  0 firmware_class         10176  1 ipw2100 ieee80211              23844  1 ipw2100 ieee80211_crypt         5736  1 ieee80211 yenta_socket           22048  0 pcmcia_core            59936  2 pcmcia,yenta_socket snd_intel8x0           33280  1 snd_ac97_codec         77088  1 snd_intel8x0 snd_pcm_oss            54212  0 snd_mixer_oss          20320  1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm                98280  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer              25828  1 snd_pcm snd                    56900  8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixe r_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore              10208  1 snd snd_page_alloc          9956  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm pci_hotplug            34480  0 ehci_hcd               33732  0 uhci_hcd               34000  0 usbcore               122552  3 ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd intel_agp              22652  1 agpgart                34600  3 drm,intel_agp pcspkr                  3496  0 rtc                    12696  0 md                     48720  0 tsdev                   7680  0 dm_mod                 62204  1 evdev                   9536  0 capability              4648  0 commoncap               7872  1 capability psmouse                21992  0 mousedev               11608  1 parport_pc             37860  1 lp                     11656  0 parport                37800  2 parport_pc,lp ide_cd                 42756  0 cdrom                  41500  1 ide_cd reiserfs              270864  3 ide_generic             1312  0 ide_disk               21056  5 piix                   10628  1 ide_core              133068  4 ide_cd,ide_generic,ide_disk,piix unix                   28884  446 thermal                13288  0 processor              22420  2 speedstep_centrino,thermal fan                     4388  0 fbcon                  38592  0 font                    8160  1 fbcon bitblit                 5632  1 fbcon vesafb                  6788  0 cfbcopyarea             3968  1 vesafb cfbimgblt               2912  1 vesafb cfbfillrect             3616  1 vesafb

and this is the output of ps -e:

Code:

     1 ?        00:00:00 init     2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0     3 ?        00:00:00 events/0     4 ?        00:00:00 khelper    16 ?        00:00:00 kacpid   127 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0   158 ?        00:00:00 pdflush   159 ?        00:00:00 pdflush   161 ?        00:00:00 aio/0   160 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0   748 ?        00:00:00 kseriod  1105 ?        00:00:00 reiserfs/0  1134 ?        00:00:00 udevd  3614 ?        00:00:00 khubd  4811 ?        00:00:00 pccardd  4947 ?        00:00:00 ipw2100/0  5229 ?        00:00:00 dhclient3  5598 ?        00:00:00 syslogd  5613 ?        00:00:00 dd  5615 ?        00:00:00 klogd  5649 ?        00:00:00 kdm  5665 ?        00:00:00 cupsd  5675 ?        00:01:42 Xorg  5736 ?        00:00:00 kdm  6009 ?        00:00:00 acpid  6071 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1  6083 ?        00:00:01 hald  6099 ?        00:00:00 inetd  6349 ?        00:00:00 cardmgr  6410 ?        00:00:00 master  6423 ?        00:00:00 pickup  6424 ?        00:00:00 qmgr  6585 ?        00:00:00 powernowd  6606 ?        00:00:00 atd  6617 ?        00:00:00 cron  6777 tty1     00:00:00 getty  6778 tty2     00:00:00 getty  6779 tty3     00:00:00 getty  6780 tty4     00:00:00 getty  6781 tty5     00:00:00 getty  6782 tty6     00:00:00 getty  6925 ?        00:00:00 startkde  7100 ?        00:00:00 gpg-agent  7103 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent  7108 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch  7109 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon-1  7141 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit  7146 ?        00:00:00 dcopserver  7148 ?        00:00:00 klauncher  7153 ?        00:00:17 kded  7159 ?        00:00:00 gam_server  7363 ?        00:00:01 artsd  7522 ?        00:00:00 kwrapper  7523 ?        00:00:00 kaccess  7525 ?        00:00:00 ksmserver  7526 ?        00:00:02 kwin  7561 ?        00:00:02 kdesktop  7563 ?        00:00:05 kicker  7565 ?        00:00:00 klipper  7568 ?        00:00:00 kmix  7569 ?        00:00:00 kio_file  7573 ?        00:00:00 knotify  7574 ?        00:00:00 kio_uiserver  7579 ?        00:01:30 opera  7747 ?        00:00:00 kdesu  7749 ?        00:00:00 kdesud  7751 pts/1    00:00:00 sudo  7753 ?        00:00:00 sudo <defunct>  7758 pts/2    00:00:00 kdesu_stub  7761 ?        00:00:19 synaptic  7762 ?        00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe  8201 ?        00:00:01 gnome-terminal  8203 ?        00:00:00 gconfd-2  8205 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati  8206 ?        00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe  8207 pts/3    00:00:00 bash  8222 pts/3    00:00:00 man  8227 pts/3    00:00:00 sh  8230 pts/3    00:00:00 tbl  8231 pts/3    00:00:00 nroff  8232 pts/3    00:00:00 pager  8235 pts/3    00:00:00 groff  8236 pts/3    00:00:00 troff  8237 pts/3    00:00:00 grotty  8238 pts/3    00:00:00 ps

This happens every time I try ubuntu, it's a great distro, but some annoying quirk leaves it useless, somehow I believe I'll need a battery on a laptop... This is the only thing not working, any ideas?

ebit · 04-04-2005, 05:39 AM

Are you sure the battery aint charging? it aint normally upto the os to charge the battery.

krisealv · 04-04-2005, 10:40 AM

the dell 500m has got a charge indicator, when in suse it lights up, works fine, and the laptop has got a batterylife of 5hours on both batteries, or two hours on the main battery. When in ubuntu, the charging indicator blinks irregularly (which indicates battery failure) with both batteries or one of the batteries in.

I have tried to boot ubuntu (no charging), SuSE (charging) and ubuntu again. (still no charging)

In ubuntu (kubuntu), the klaptop applet displays that the battery is fully charged, but when I disconnect it, I once only got 10m of batterylife;(

This really pisses me of, The new ubuntu really is a nice distro, but this quirk reders it useless to me;(

It seems as though the os is somehow obstructing the charging from functioning, somehow.

vavoem · 11-30-2005, 02:29 AM

Yep same problem here with a Compaq EVO N1020V

It only charges when i boot it with the ac powercord connected
Booting without and then later connecting leaves it running on battery power
When battery is empty , with ac cord connected, pzzzz......