Battery Monitor doesn't

castalla2007 · 12-23-2007, 04:57 PM

I've traweled through pages of stuff trying to discover why the gnome battery monitor doesn't work - it always shows AC power. Diagnostics I've run fail to find the battery. Anybody got any ideas (and simple instructions, please) on how to proceed?

I installed lp-batmon - but have no idea of how to get it to run!

btmiller · 12-23-2007, 05:40 PM

Can you post your hardware specs and the version of Linux you're running? There's not much in the way of information in your post to go on... But as a quick check, do you have the APM or ACPI (whichever is appropriate for your system) loaded?

AwesomeMachine · 12-23-2007, 05:46 PM

I think you need powersave package installed for that to work. Debian has a great laptop install, and Etch has become much more user friendly. I recently installed Etch on a lappy, and everything worked perfectly.

castalla2007 · 12-23-2007, 06:24 PM

Using ubuntu 7.10 - updated via synaptic.

acpi from terminal reports no info for battery or thermal - power line plugged-in.

I've tried every comination of acpi and/or apm in services. Makes no difference.

Loading powersave makes no difference either.

AwesomeMachine · 12-23-2007, 06:59 PM

Try these packages: suspend or uswsusp

castalla2007 · 12-23-2007, 07:24 PM

Can you describe what they are ...