On 04/07/2011 10:49 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 07:42 PM, sean darcy wrote:
>> With an updated F14 on a laptop, System -> Preferences> Power Manager
>> comes up with only "On AC Power" and "General". I can see from help
>> there should be a Battery tab. But not here.
>
> What is selected in the Notification Area of the General tab?
>
> You're not booting with "noacpi" are you? I'm not sure how well the
> older APM? stuff works with Gnome.
>
> Can you look and see if there is an: /proc/acpi/battery directory?
> Does it contain (at least) a BAT0 directory? And in there, you should
> find files: alarm info state
>
> If so, try looking at those 3 files. You should be able to see
> information about your laptop battery.
>
> Do you have a power-management applet running in one of your panels?
> If so, does it show just a power cord, a battery and a power cord, or
> just a battery? Does your laptop run without the power cord plugged in?
> If so, does the applet icon change when you change the power cord state?
>
>> gnome-power-manager-2.32.0-3.fc14.x86_64
>>
>> How do I get the Battery tab?
>
> ??? It should work if the system detects/recognizes the battery....
>
>> sean
>
Well /proc/acpi/battery exists. Not BAT0, there is BAT1, but:
ls /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/
alarm info state
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/*
present: no
present: no
present: no
It's a Toshiba Satellite L655 laptop. The battery works. But if I unplug
the power, but the applet icon continues to show just the plug.
And dmesg shows the kernel can't find the battery:
[ 0.909451] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
[ 0.910476] ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to intel_idle
[ 0.914884] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.914990] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
The kernel boot parameters are from the install:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 ro
root=UUID=7e1a1084-2795-4511-8d33-0e589af7b6a8 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us
Puzzled.
sean
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