Ksysguard Battery Monitoring Failure

smartfüd · 04-08-2004, 09:21 PM

I'm back again, with one more question. I'm running KDE's System Guard to monitor battery amount remaining on my laptop. Problem is, it reports battery remaining at 0 no matter what. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 2650 with MDK 10.0 fresh install. Couldn't find anything in the Ksysguard documentation that mentioned problems with the battery monitoring. Thanks in advance.

Entropius · 04-09-2004, 01:01 AM

Does running "acpi" in a konsole window give you a battery lifespan estimate?

smartfüd · 04-09-2004, 08:49 PM

I see no option for ACPI. I get command not found if I try to run as either my main user or as root. There isn't a man entry for acpi either. Package needing installation perhaps?

EDIT: Intel claims here that ACPI or at least a portion of its interpretation code is included in Linux as of kernel realease 2.4. I saw another thread in search here that mentioned recompiling the kernel using APM instead of ACPI if your machine supports one but not the other. I don't want have the skill to recompile the kernel or the wish to do so.