Battery Problem

**olliepetch** · 11-07-2005

Ive just come over from windows, however in linux I cannot read how much battery power I have left it always reports as 1% full even when fully charged.
I have the Acer Aspire 5002LM and i'm running SuSE9.3, thanks for any help,
Ollie.

**spencerf** · 11-07-2005

are you using acpi or apm?

**bryansmith** · 11-08-2005

I'm pretty sure acpi is installed by default with Suse but I am not 100% sure (it was installed for me in 10.0 - 9.3 had no problems with the battery either). Does it say 1% full when plugged in and unplugged?

Bryan

**olliepetch** · 11-08-2005

Yea it says 1% when plugged in and when unplugged, how do i tell if i'm using acpi and api.

Thanks

**bryansmith** · 11-09-2005

Search Yast to see if they are installed.

There is also a power management module for Yast: Yast>System>Power Management. Go here and try changing some of those settings.

Bryan

**spencerf** · 11-09-2005

try in the console

as root

Code:

#acpi -b

if it says something other than command not found you are using acpi and if it shows the correct battery status then it is a problem with your gui battery thing. Sorry I don't know exact term but I think you are referring to a little battery symbol on your desktop. I have FC3 and this thing never worked for me so try using the command above.

**olliepetch** · 11-10-2005

Nothing happens when i type the code in, not even command not found, that is logged in as root. In YaST under power management there is a ACPI settings button, which would suggest it is installed, however the only settings there are to change are just preferances such as what happens when the lid is closed and editing power schemes.

**spencerf** · 11-10-2005

you can try looking in /proc

[/code] cd /proc/acpi if you have this directory then acpi is working. Then in this you should be able to find something like this with this command
cat battery/BAT0/state thats a zero not an o. or from anywhere
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Code:

if this doesn't work try the same thing basically but with apm

cat /proc/apm/..........[/code]

if neither show up then I'm lost or you don't have either support in your kernel which would be troublesome

EDIT: apparently I'm not gettting the code part to work today but I hope you get the point

**hamburger123** · 11-10-2005

I think what spencerf means when he says

Code:

#acpi -b

is to type it as root, so it would just be

Code:

acpi -b

The hashes indicate that it's a comment and the shell will just ignore it.

**spencerf** · 11-10-2005

that's correct hamburger I didn't even think that he entered in pound before the acpi -b part. I can see how that would be confusing.

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