On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 19:08, Stéphane Guedon <stephane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am writing to you concerning acer batteries. > My laptop batteries aren't detected until I plug in/out the ac_adaptator. > If I am at home, working on it, no problem. But if I am out of buildings, > where I can't have power, my power status won't be detected by my desktop > environnement. > > In fact, sysfs detect it at boot and display it's state. But kde seems to look > at udev event : > -when I switch off udev service, and plug in or out my adaptator, kde detect > nothing ! > - if I start again udev (just after stopping it and plug in/out adaptator), > kde detect it ! Udev does not do anything with batteries. It just receives events about them from the kernel. There are no rules or setup at udev's side which should change things, it's all inside the kernel. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html