Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hi It depends on what dist of Linux you are running. The new type use udev and hal and the old use coldplug. So little more info about your system please. I'm using Ubuntu edgy. That uses udev but since it's a server install it

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess /etc/hotplug/usb/libhidups isn't doing its job correctly on boot. Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine. Pedro. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Kjell Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you restart the upsdrv before you replug the ups, does it find the ups ? No it still doesn't. The thing is that you may start the nut to early. In what runlevel do you start nut ? I don't think that's it. Don't know if ubuntu have

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pedro, Hey everyone. Thanks for being so helpful. are you sure the owner / group doesn't change? lsusb doesn't show that. I didn't know where to look for the dev files. I'm running edgy too on the present laptop. I've not deeply gone

Re: [Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

2006-11-02 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/2/06, Arnaud Quette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine. thanks for the feedback Pedro. I'll have to make a new deb release to address this. Was it enough to diagnose the problem? As a side note, the long run approach will be using a new tool called

[Nut-upsuser] Calibrating the Battery on an MGE Ellipse Premium 1200

2006-11-04 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
My new MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 is now working fine. I've tested pulling the plug and the computer shuts down properly and comes back up when I replug. The only strange behaviour is that when I put the power back on the battery shows as being at 86%. If it was at 86% it should have lasted longer.

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Calibrating the Battery on an MGE Ellipse Premium 1200

2006-11-05 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/4/06, Charles Lepple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saw your other thread discussing HAL - is your current setup using NUT to determine when to shut down, or is NUT just telling another subsystem when the UPS is on battery power (which might just use a timer, instead of waiting for a low battery

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-12 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/12/06, Charles Lepple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try setting MAXAGE in upsd.conf to something like 25 or 30. I tried 120 and it didn't work. Any other suggestions? Pedro. ___ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-12 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/12/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try an analogous setting for DEADTIME in upsmon.conf. This has no effect either. The connection works like this: upsmon --- upsd --- driver. So which timeout you should increase depends on whether the connection was lost between upsmon

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-12 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can only guess. Perhaps you are starting the components in the wrong order? You have to start: First the driver (upsdrvctl). Second upsd. Third upsmon. I'm not starting anything by hand. It's the standard ubuntu/debian init script that

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-13 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/13/06, Peter Selinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what their start-stop-daemon command does, but assuming that it starts upsd as a background process, this could be the source of the problem. upsd is intended to be started in the foreground; it will put itself in the background

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-14 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/14/06, Arjen de Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you also try adding a 5 second sleep between starting upsdrvctl and upsd? I think the problem lies there, upsd is trying to connect to the driver that is still in the process of starting up. Since upsd will periodically retry connecting to

Re: [Nut-upsuser] Spurious messages on start

2006-11-15 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/14/06, Pedro Côrte-Real [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/14/06, Arjen de Korte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you also try adding a 5 second sleep between starting upsdrvctl and upsd? I think the problem lies there, upsd is trying to connect to the driver that is still in the process

Re: [Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD 6.1, MGE Ellipse ASR600USBS, newhidups upsd

2006-11-16 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 11/16/06, Eric Masson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I launch upsd, it barfs vith : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ /usr/local/sbin/upsd -u root Password: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.0.4 Connected to UPS [mge]: newhidups-auto Synchronizing giving up This looks like the same problem I was having. If