"Laptop Power Management not available"

spyderusa11 · 07-08-2003, 02:50 PM

I just installed SuSE 8.2 and I get a red X over the battery icon in the system try. If I run the mouse over it, it says "Laptop Power Management not available."

If I right click and click "Configure KLaptop" I get:

Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel.

Help?

Thanks,
Mike

Tinkster · 07-08-2003, 03:20 PM

Get a recent kernel, get the patch from
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ ... try again. :)

If you're lucky someone might have provided
a good DSDT for you particular box. Just a
side-note: MOST current notebooks have a
flakey ACPI implementation, and work around
that in WinDOHS by specialized drivers ...

Cheers,
Tink

Pcghost · 07-08-2003, 04:44 PM

If it's an HP pavilion laptop ACPI will work great after you recompile. I am using the 2.5.68 kernel and it is lightning fast on this machine (ze 4230). I didn't bother patching the kernel as the version was high enough to expect ok results from the stock implementation.

vapor · 07-13-2003, 10:57 PM

i have the same problem with my toshiba

h1tman · 07-13-2003, 11:39 PM

oh thats wassup

Caeda · 07-16-2003, 03:39 PM

WAAAAAAAAAIIIIITTTTTT.

Suse comes with acpi enabled. Just go into Yast2. Click the System tab, click on Runlevel editor, and turn on acpid for runlevel 2 3 5...
Done

VaskoV · 05-06-2004, 05:51 PM

@Caeda and all the others, many, many, many thanks! (to think it was sooooo simple.... but so hard to get there)