hello.

I have kernel varsion 2.4.22. My bios seems to support APM only (i tryed the ACPI kernel drivers, but dmesg told me ACPI wouldnt be used, cos the hardware isnt supporting it)

Now my problem with APM is, that i get this line when i "cat" /proc/apm (with AC-Power and without, at any charge level...)

1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0xff -1% -1 ?

This is obviously not what i should get. What might be wrong? Where sould I begin searching for the error? Is it possible, that my APM implementation is broken on the laptop?

Thank for any ideas.

raven

that's exactly the output I get from cat /proc/apm and I can assure you that my apm is working superbly. Are there any particular problems that you are noticing?

Well yes, my particular problem is (aside from that i dont know how to use any APM feature) that when i start apm --monitor i always get AC: online and a battery charge of -1% with unkown time left for operation.

This cant be right. I get -1% with or without the power cord attached.

Or should I have started apmd at boot time (i didnt, because on my old laptop apm --monitor worked as I expected it to, without apmd running)?

Thanks

raven

I'm pretty sure you do need apmd running. There aren't that many apm features. The one good thing I like about it is that it can suspend with
apm -s

what he said. although i'm not sure why quatsch would be getting a -1 either.

mine displays right. i'm guessing yours should look something like this when plugged in and fully charged.

1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0x03 0x09 100% 228 min

well thats what i was wondering about too...

i will try running the stuff with apmd. lets hope the best.

raven

Well yes, as I expected. APMD doesnt do any good either, the output is the same, and I cant read anywhere what battery charge I have. /proc outputs the same value "-1%" as usual. APM --monitor does the same.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

prolly a dumb question, but what version of apmd are you running? maybe check and see if there's a newer version or maybe see if you're running apmd 3.0.2-10 (that's my version of apmd which works for me. maybe it could work for you).

I have APMD 3.0.2 with apm kernel drivers version 1.16

OK, A totally dumb suggestion. Have you tried starting klaptop? OR the Gnome battery monitor?

Also, What kind of laptop, and distro?

No, havent tryed those Progs yet.

I have a Notebook of no brand with a SIS chipset (SIS 630) with everything working, except APM... :-)

My distro is gentoo.

G

raven