new powermanager and battery

[Kevin Kleinsmith]

I think there is a break in the kernel because I am seeing this a lot on
many new packages lately. 

Nice to know we are back to living without ACPI again....

Kevin M Kleinsmith
K2 at Knowireless.com


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: new powermanager and battery
> From: Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net>
> Date: Tue, September 05, 2006 8:33 am
> To: kubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:36, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 16:31, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:10, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > > And you do have /proc/acpi?
> > >
> > > /proc/acpi as a directory does exist.  Is there something I should be
> > > looking for?
> >
> > Yes, check if you have a battery emulated in your vmware. It should surface
> > somewhere under /proc/acpi.
> >
> > If there is one *and* HAL reports it, it's a bug in power-manager,
> > otherwise, it's either vmware lacking its emulation and if that is there,
> > HAL being broken (or incomplete).
> >
> > You can query hal with the "lshal" program, btw.
> >
> > >  Also Power Management is now found under "Lost and Found" under the K
> > > Menu
> >
> > I'm not in charge of .desktop files, sorry.
> 
> I guess more reporting that the location of the icon is in the wrong place, 
> i'll file a bug instead.
> 
> Output of lshal | grep acpi
> 
> jjesse at scipio:/proc/acpi$ lshal | grep acpi
>   info.addons = {'hald-addon-acpi'} (string list)
>   power_management.acpi.linux.version = '20060127'  (string)
>   power_management.type = 'acpi'  (string)
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRF'
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_PWRF'  (string)
>   linux.acpi_type = 10  (0xa)  (int)
>   linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/button/power/PWRF'  (string)
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_ACAD'
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_ACAD'  (string)
>   linux.acpi_type = 3  (0x3)  (int)
>   linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD'  (string)
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_CPU0'
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_CPU0'  (string)
>   linux.acpi_type = 1  (0x1)  (int)
>   linux.acpi_path = '/proc/acpi/processor/CPU0'  (string)
> jjesse at scipio:/proc/acpi$                                 
> 
> Sorry that I don't know how to read this better but I hope it heps
> 
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