powersave doesnt recognize my battery

ryan00davis · 03-08-2007, 12:32 AM

im running debian and kde on a dell 700m

for some reason whatever power manager i was using disappeared after i let adept update everything, so i installed kpowersave and now:

kpowersave thinks that it is always plugged in, but it does appear to work at managing my cpu, so its not completely not working.

if i run powersave -s, it says no battery.

anybody else ever seen this problem or have any idea what it might be?

ryan00davis · 03-10-2007, 04:00 PM

so nobody has any advice for me?

ryan00davis · 03-10-2007, 04:09 PM

ok, so ive figured out that acpi doesnt recognize my battery either, when i run acpi in terminal it gives "No support for device type: battery"

ive tried reinstalling acpi and that doesnt fix it

kanwar_rajan · 03-11-2007, 11:52 PM

first check if the ACPI bettery module is loaded..

modprobe battery.
modprobe ac

Then try to run powersave and see if it detects the battery..

ryan00davis · 03-14-2007, 12:31 AM

wow, seems so simple, that did the trick, thanks for the help

kanwar_rajan · 03-14-2007, 10:27 AM

nice to know it got working..

u can also list these modules in the /etc/modules.conf..

these will then be automatically loaded at bootup...