Hello,everyone!

I am asking do you guys have any experience with the kernel setting to enable battery meter successfully?Yeah,you can add the icon easily.But it shows nothing but 0%.

Please drop me a line if you have any successful experience regarding battery meter.Thanks.

You need to be more specific. What application are you using
to display this battery meter? And what output do you get for:
Is this setup in your kernel, and do you have ACPI or APM running?

I'm assuming this is a laptop. What brand and modell?

What kernel did you install? I'm guessing you have an ACPI laptop but installed the bare (default) kernel instead of the correct ACPI kernel.

Dennisk

Sorry,I just want to be brief to describe my situation but forget to add some important details.

I'm using Slackware Linux,Kernel-2.6.14.3 with ACPI,upgrade from Slackware testing kernel.Also,the computer is my notebook (Dell Inspiron 300M) with ACPI.

Chinaman,thanks for your help.But I don't get anything from your command.Because in the folder /proc/acpi/,I can't find battery folder.

I just don't want to "recompile" my kernel because I have got through this and it takes time.

Thanks for the help you guys have given.

Hi,everyone!Glad to tell you all the problem was fixed.

I posted my question here after I have upgraded my kernel and reboot several time yesterday but no luck.However,the battery meter is on today and I don't know why.Without a doubt,I can see the battery information from the directory /proc/acpi/battery/.

I will figure out what's the problem.Because I have mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.14.3 -m ac:adaptor:battery:acpi and some more modules .However,after I updated the lilo configuration file,it showed nothing in the battery meter.That's why I called it is "strange" when the battery meter is "functional" today.

Thanks for the help again.