Re: F14: Power Manager: No "On Battery" tab

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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