Laptop!

Dumpsterm0uth · 01-14-2003, 07:34 PM

Ok, I also have another problem with linux, not gkrellm, or kbattery even knows my toshiba 1905-s301 laptop has a battery so when I unplug from wall it thinks its at 0% still. Does anyone know how to make it know I have a battery so I know how much battery is left?

Bert · 01-14-2003, 08:11 PM

There's not much hope that someone would know how to do this here - it's a very vendor-hardware specific question. I have a brand of IBM laptop which I've never seen outside Japan, and linux works with everything on it!

Find out what the model of battery is, the PCI information etc., and head over to http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to have a look at similar models.

have you looked at the system logs too?

tail -f /var/log/messages

and then plug in and plug out your laptop a few times. What do the messages say?

Bert

finegan · 01-15-2003, 03:23 AM

First off, and my apologies if this sounds like a silly suggestion, but is the apm module loaded?

modprobe apm

Cheers,

Finegan

Smerk · 01-15-2003, 07:38 AM

I have a similar problem, my little beasty - asusl3800 rh7.3 in klaptop shows the change from mains to battery, shows the battery charging (ie going from 78% to full) but doesn't show the charge dropping when taken off mains..

any ideas?

hmm... did modprobe as suggested by el great one finegan and no apm! tried to insmod it but apm module not found. I can however suspend & standby the beastie could I be running some other type of power management thingy?

finegan · 01-15-2003, 03:09 PM

if you're getting feedback from the battery at all, some flavor of apm (advanced power management) is loaded, what's the contents of /sbin/lsmod?

Also, if apm is doing its job half right, it might be an issue with apm and your board; there are a lot of laptops out there for the kernel geeks to keep up with, and you might have gotten shuffled off to the side. If you want to look at the raw readings from apm:

cat /proc/apm

Cheers,

Finegan

DAChristen29 · 01-18-2003, 05:55 AM

i used mandrake 9.0 on a TOSHIBA 1805 s274
when i used KDE, i added the power applet, all i had to do was hover the mouse over the applet and it told me how much is left. at least i think this was kde. i used it in gnome also. APM works fine with mdk 9.0, no configuration needed. also, you could just go to an Xterm and type in "apm" with no quotes.