power manager

[filo1234]

hi to all , i'm a new italian memeber in this forum. I write here because i have a problem with my lap-top Asus L4 Series.
In my gutsy power manager running but not correctly, so the battery icon is present but her status not change when i feed AC current and power manager not manage my battery. I have installed all kde-desktop , hal , kde-guidance-powermanager and so on...i have try to install kpowersave but result is the same ...so have some solution?? Thank you

ps Sorry for my english

[marshallbanana]

Re: power manager

Just to be clear, you mean that when you plug the laptop in it charges fine, just that the battery icon doesn't change?

[filo1234]

Re: power manager

i mean wich when i disconnect my feed AC current, battery icon don't change her status....while battery descarghing i don't see her charge level level ....and my laptop when battery is low, power down

[marshallbanana]

Re: power manager

Ok, I googled across the following command which will check your battery level from the command line:
acpi -b
try running that when your computer is anything under fully charged and you should get something like
Battery 1: charging, 45%, 01:01:32 until charged
This should tell us that your battery level is being measured correctly which would leave the problem as your battery level icon not being updated.

[filo1234]

Re: power manager

thanks for your attentions, thats input no such results

filo@filippo-laptop:~$ acpi -b
filo@filippo-laptop:~$

So in my kcontrol i have found this
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ermata3bq9.png

[marshallbanana]

Re: power manager

Well, if acpi is not working then no wonder you battery status hasn't been updating. Will have to have a look around the net and get back to you but from the look of that message in kcontrol it could be that the easiest thing (if you haven't done much customizing of kubuntu) would simply be a reinstall (because rebuilding you kernel is definitely an advanced level solution - its out of my range thats for sure).
At least we now know what the problem is though.

[marshallbanana]

Re: power manager

If you look in adept package manager does it show the following as installed?
acpi
acpi-support
acpid

[filo1234]

Re: power manager

If you look in adept package manager does it show the following as installed?
acpi
acpi-support
acpid

yes they are. Their services are configurate to start on boot ...but looking in services they are not running...maybe is better to reinstall Feisty on lap-top , with 7.04 i have not problems

[SheeEttin]

Re: power manager

Try starting them manually, either through System Services or "sudo /etc/init.d/acpid start; sudo /etc/init.d/acpi-support start".

[filo1234]

Re: power manager

filo@filippo-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/acpi-support start
 * Checking battery state...                       [ OK ]
filo@filippo-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/acpid start
 * Loading ACPI modules...                        [ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI services...                        
filo@filippo-laptop:~$

power manager is dead
http://img161.imageshack.us/my.php?i...agine11mn8.jpg

[filo1234]

Re: power manager

so anyone have other ideas? i hope in some kernel upgrade or i come back on feisty ...i think

[marshallbanana]

Re: power manager

Sorry but I'm out. We figured out the problem but its solution is beyond me. That said if you are doing a reinstall I would suggest retrying gutsy, might just have been a one off (also look into setting up a seperate /home partition, its well worth it).