Hi,
I know this line from former times when I used ISDN to cennect to the
internet. :)
Now I have a brandnew laptop. Specs see http://bug-e.net/Webgine/
Problem is:
When running on battery it gives no warning whatsoever, it dies in the
middle of work when the battery runs dry. Suspend mode works
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + :
> If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol
> control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever percent
> level you want. (worked for mine)
And what is this KDE flummy playing frontend for? I don't use
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 14:10, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> *** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 :
>
> > On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > ...
> > > BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows
> > > battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the
*** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 10:13:26 -0700 :
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> ...
> > BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows
> > battery-status either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real
> > situation. It even shows 0% when the battery pack is ou
*** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:16:39 -0700 :
>Doing some google searches I've run across just two Mentions of
>this
> ... Seems it's kernel related as you'll see.
>
> http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-25/1591.html
>
> The second site is in german and related to
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:22, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > *** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + :
> >
> > > If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol
> > > control center that will allow you to set warnings a
Hi Mate,
make sure you remove acpi=off and check if it work.
Worked for me yesterday when installing a new Laptop of a friend.
However - I don't know if the suspend stuff works - at least we could see the
battery charge level etc. and hitting the powerbutton performs a clean
shutdown.
Anyone h
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 02:53, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> Hi Mate,
>
> make sure you remove acpi=off and check if it work.
> Worked for me yesterday when installing a new Laptop of a friend.
> However - I don't know if the suspend stuff works - at least we could see the
> battery charge level etc. and h
*** Jack Coates 13 Aug 2003 16:40:02 -0700 :
> >
> > Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot:
> >
> > kernel: ACPI-1121: *** Error: Method execution
> > failed[\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_._Q1E] (Node c12fef60),
> > AE_AML_RE
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 07:22, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
...
> BTW: I recognized one more related thing: gkrellm shows battery-status
> either as 0% or -1%, totally independent of the real situation. It even
> shows 0% when the battery pack is out and I use the power cord only.
>
> wobo
>
gkacpi
do
*** Joerg Mertin Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:53:12 +0200 :
> Hi Mate,
>
> make sure you remove acpi=off and check if it work.
Will do.
> Worked for me yesterday when installing a new Laptop of a friend.
> However - I don't know if the suspend stuff works - at least we could
> see the battery charge le
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:43, Charlie wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:43 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:10 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > > > Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot:
> > >
> > > You might have to enable it in lilo during boot. Mine is off :-
> > >
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:10 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Is there a RPM or a source? Did not find it.
>
> I just installed a small applet in GNOME, a battery meter in the task
> bar which shows my battery with 0%. It says "Battery 0% (Full)" and an
> exclamation mark tells me that "System runs on Ba
*** Charlie Charlie Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:22:16 +1000 :
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:10 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> >
> > Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot:
>
> You might have to enable it in lilo during boot. Mine is off :-
> append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off"
>
> If I remov
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 02:43 pm, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:10 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > > Doesn't work. I get an error message during boot:
> >
> > You might have to enable it in lilo during boot. Mine is off :-
> > append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=off"
> >
> > If I
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 09:39, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this line from former times when I used ISDN to cennect to the
> internet. :)
>
> Now I have a brandnew laptop. Specs see http://bug-e.net/Webgine/
>
> Problem is:
> When running on battery it gives no warning whatsoever, it d
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:42, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> *** James Sparenberg Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:44:00 + :
>
> > If you use KDE the is a power management section in the kcontrol
> > control center that will allow you to set warnings at whatever percent
> > level you want. (worked for mine)
*** Jack Coates 14 Aug 2003 06:57:35 -0700 :
> APM isn't supposed to load if ACPI is possible, though I haven't tried
> that on a laptop which supports both. Looking at that bug-e page, it
> sounds to me like it is an ACPI laptop but that this chip is too new
> for the current release of ACPI to
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