Hi all: On a Compaq C300 laptop, running OpenSuSe 10.2 with KDE 3.5.7, i am trying to troubleshoot ACPI.
On running the command 'acpi -V' it says battery and adapter not supported. The thermal information is shown: Thermal 1: ok, 49.0 degrees C Thermal 2: ok, 27.0 degrees C An analysis of 'dmesg' log shows, ... ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1 ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (49 C) ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ02] (27 C) ... ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 58 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 58 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 225 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:08:08.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ... ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI Error (evxfevnt-0189): Could not enable SleepButton event [20060707] ACPI Warning (evxface-0146): Could not enable fixed event 3 [20060707] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] So, i ran a process check, root 10 6 0 17:27 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid] root 2314 1 0 17:28 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/acpid 101 2903 2504 0 17:28 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 3086 1 0 17:28 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/powersaved -d -f /var/run/acpid.socket -v 3 This indicates that kacpid and powersaved are both running. The 'battery' kernel module is loaded as well. checked it through '/sbin/lsmod | grep battery'. Any suggestions, what i could be missing or how to get acpi to recognize the battery and the attendant stage change ? Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi.

