Re: [Kde-hardware-devel] Battery Applet fails to detect battery - possible issue with Solid correctly detecting the battery...

2009-08-29 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Friday 28 August 2009 19:22:20 you wrote: > At some point in the recent past, it was detecting my battery, and I was > running KDE 4.2 or 4.3 at the time. So, I expect the BIOS to be ok. Well, yes and no, on my laptop for a while I had quite a few ACPI issues depending on the kernel *minor* ve

Re: [Kde-hardware-devel] Battery Applet fails to detect battery - possible issue with Solid correctly detecting the battery...

2009-08-28 Thread Roderick B. Greening
Here's a diff of the output from lshal (before vs after detecting battery). The battery shows up in lshal after I remove the AC power and reconnect. At some point in the recent past, it was detecting my battery, and I was running KDE 4.2 or 4.3 at the time. So, I expect the BIOS to be ok. Howev

Re: [Kde-hardware-devel] Battery Applet fails to detect battery - possible issue with Solid correctly detecting the battery...

2009-08-28 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:47:38 Roderick B. Greening wrote: > When I first boot up, with or without my AC adapter plugged in, the Battery > plasma applet (power management) does not detect I have a Battery. If I > remove or plug in the power it will trigger Solid to update and then it > picks u

[Kde-hardware-devel] Battery Applet fails to detect battery - possible issue with Solid correctly detecting the battery...

2009-08-27 Thread Roderick B. Greening
Hi, I was directed to this list by Sebastion (sebas). I have collected some details (see attached) which should help to detect where the issue lies. For now, it seems to point as Solid not picking up the battery, even when lshw has the battery detected. *-battery description: Lithiu