Klaptopdaemon / Battery Monitor

[Rick Knight]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>   
>> I am running kde-guidance and kde-guidance-powermanager.
>> Guidance-power-manager is the backend for those.
>>     
>
> kde-guidance is not involved in the power management at all.  For some odd
> reason it actually depends on kde-guidance-powermanager, but it is a bunch
> of kcontrol components (and kubuntu doesn't even use kcontrol, though I
> expect they're also available through System Settings).
>   
Both of these, kde-guidance and kde-guidance-powermanager are installed 
on my system and kde-guidance is included in startup, 
kde-guidance-powermanage is not. I didn't install either of them.
>   
>> It's also, I believe, 
>> the command line tool for kde-guidance.
>>     
>
> kde-guidance isn't involved in power management.
>
>   
>> Anyway, I am running kde-guidance, 
>>     
AT least it's in startup. Does it start kde-guidance-powermanage?
>
> Then _don't_.  It's not involved.  There may be useful things in
> kde-guidance but it has nothing to do with this problem.
>
>   
>> but I don't get any battery status, 
>>     
>
>   
>> just the cpu frequency. I have noticed that powersaved 
>>     
>
> Powersaved is _also_ not part of the default kubuntu install and seems
> likely to interfere with the guidance-power-manager (which also does
> suspend/resume).
>   
>   
>> and acpid don't start properly. 
>>     
>
> Arrgh.  What sort of error description is "don't start properly"?  That's
> the root problem, and you just treat it as insignificant.  Can you tell I'm
> getting frustrated?
>   
I get the startup error during boot, but it is so fast I can't get a 
good look at it and the error text does not show up in dmesg or 
/var/log/messages. What I can see is that acpid cannot start because 
acpid is not installed. I No acpid is installed and I can start acpid 
after boot without errors. I'm not trying to be obtuse, I just can't see 
enough of the error to tell you exactly what it says.
>   
>> I have to manually start powersaved first and then start 
>> acpid before I can get kde-guidance to show the cpu frequency, but still
>> no battery status.
>>     
>
> Forget powersaved - at least for now - and tell us exactly what happens when
> you start acpid.
>   
When I start acpid from a terminal I get this...

root at rick-laptop:~# /etc/init.d/acpid start
 * Loading ACPI modules...                                               
[ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI services...                                             
[ OK ]

It's loading OK from the command. Also, I've removed powersaved and 
rebooted and I no longer get the startup error from acpid.

The battery module is loading alon with other modules for acpid support 
(battery ac processor button fan thermal bay dock) from 
/etc/default/acpid. That taskbar icon still does not give battery 
status. What next?

Thanks again for your help, sorry for the frustration,
Rick