Suse 10.3 & battery monitor on Acer TravelMate 2304
I have an Acer TravelMate 2304WMLi (Celeron M 350 1.3Ghz, 15.4" TFT, 1GB RAM, Suse 10.3(i586), Kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1default I686)
The only thing which consistently refuses to work is the battery monitor. It works with Ubuntu, but I prefer Suse. Has anyone had any luck here? |
Just a shoot in the dark...:) Check with lsmod command if ac and battery modules are loaded. Maybe because of some strange reason, SuSE didn't load them. Also try to manually load them with modprobe and then check what dmesg says.
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Didn't think to check the modules! Did the modprobe thing, and now I get this:
Code:
florence:~ # lsmod I've been using Suse for over 2 years, and never had this work. I haven't done a kernel compile since about 6 years ago, and that was with Slack, so I'd have to read up on it before I tried. The strange thing is that it works fine with Suse 10.1, 10.2 & 10.3 on my Dell! I now have some work which means carrying the Acer around. If I can't get this to work, I will either have to upgrade the Dell's RAM or change to using Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3.5.9, or Fedora 8 with KDE 3.5.6, on the Acer. Both have the ac/battery monitor working fine, which means the BIOS & hardware do support it. Any help would be appreciated. |
It is quite strange that SuSE is not loading those modules automatically.:-/ I also wrote that you should check what dmesg says when you load ac and battery modules manually.
Code:
#modprobe ac; modprobe battery Also, you don't have lm_sensors service enabled, it is not connected with battery. |
ak-87, thanks for the suggestions. the modprobes got no response, and no aparent power related error messages.
I looked in /proc/acpi/ac_adapter & /proc/acpi/battery and they are both empty. I've no installed Fedora 8 as a 2nd OS and I'm going to see what that does different. |
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