Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
On Friday 07 January 2005 09:19 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. Couple things Is your swap partition big enough to handle a suspend operation, for instance, suspend won't work if you have 512MB memory and 384MB swap. Yes it is. I had the horrors that it mightn't when you said that though :) Some laptops don't really follow the acpi standard, so suspend and stanby really don't work properly. cpufreqd is another app that works with acpi to slow down your processor when it is on battery or idle. I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] unholy]# service cpufreq start Probing cpufreq modules : [FAILED] And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the application. Hmmm. It is working here. Did you do service acpid start after installing the new packages? I'm sorry, the icon changes when you connect the mains and I thought the icon dissapeared. Check in teh MCC/System/Services that they are set to run at boot. You also need to check dmesg after rebooting to check that acpi was enabled at boot, if dmesg reports that it was disabled due to some reason, then using the acpi=force option will make it load. dmesg just says that cpufreq will be deprecated from 2.6.8 but aside from that no other messages so I guess it works? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
On Friday 07 January 2005 11:52 pm, JR wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get acpi working? Or failing that, to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10? I've tried setting the kernel boot options to acpi=on and 'noapic' but I still dont have acpi Do you have the acpi and acpid packages installed? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the application. Jarlath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. Couple things Is your swap partition big enough to handle a suspend operation, for instance, suspend won't work if you have 512MB memory and 384MB swap. Some laptops don't really follow the acpi standard, so suspend and stanby really don't work properly. cpufreqd is another app that works with acpi to slow down your processor when it is on battery or idle. And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the application. Hmmm. It is working here. Did you do service acpid start after installing the new packages? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 12:39 am, JR wrote: Greg, thanks. I've just downloaded them and I ran the kde laptop battery program. I tried standby, suspend and hibernate. The screen goes to console with a message saying that it is performing the appropriate action. But then it returns to the desktop. Couple things Is your swap partition big enough to handle a suspend operation, for instance, suspend won't work if you have 512MB memory and 384MB swap. Some laptops don't really follow the acpi standard, so suspend and stanby really don't work properly. cpufreqd is another app that works with acpi to slow down your processor when it is on battery or idle. And the klaptopbattery is not shown in the system tray, even though that option is checked in the config for the application. Hmmm. It is working here. Did you do service acpid start after installing the new packages? Check in teh MCC/System/Services that they are set to run at boot. You also need to check dmesg after rebooting to check that acpi was enabled at boot, if dmesg reports that it was disabled due to some reason, then using the acpi=force option will make it load. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
