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Hi All, I am having problems with the Battery Charge Monitor 2.2.0 on RedHat 9. The battery icon shows the battery as being un-charged even when it is fully charged. ...
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  1. 03-04-2004 #1
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    Battery Charge Monitor on RH9

    Hi All,

    I am having problems with the Battery Charge Monitor 2.2.0 on RedHat 9.

    The battery icon shows the battery as being un-charged even when it is fully charged. It also always displays it's self as running on AC power the whole time and not on battery power.

    Any suggestions?
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  2. 03-04-2004 #2
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    If you run the `apm' command from a shell, does it return valid information or the same as the BC monitor?
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    Also have you got ACPI support in the kernel? If your laptop is newish I would use ACPI over APM which isnt very good. Your battery monitor should work then also.
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    Tha apm command returns the following regardless of if it is being powered by mains or battery.

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    AC on-line, no system battery
    Any ideas?
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    That's odd, like the BIOS isn't properly reporting the APM status. It might be worthwhile checking out the manufacturer's "service/support" webpage and downloading and installing any BIOS upgrade.
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    BIOS

    What BIOS do you have?
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    Similar issue...

    I'm having a similar problem on my Dell Latitude. Basically, RH9 is not seeing my system battery at all. If I run apm, it simply returns 'AC on-line.' It says nothing about the battery; if I pull and re-seat the battery, nothing either.

    The laptop dual boots RH9 and Windows XP and the battery is fine when I'm running Windows.

    Thoughts?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Giro
    Also have you got ACPI support in the kernel? If your laptop is newish I would use ACPI over APM which isnt very good. Your battery monitor should work then also.
    I had to do this to get mine to work in slackware. Probably would work in Red/fed too
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