Klaptopdaemon / Battery Monitor

[Rick Knight]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 2008/4/21 Rick Knight <rick_knight at rlknight.com>:
>   
>> I'm not sure if I have the right tools here, but on my laptop (Compaq
>>  nc8230) I used to get a battery monitor on the task bar. This battery
>>  monitor was available with Dapper and Feisty and I think with Dapper's
>>  predecessor, but not in Gutsy. Klaptopdaemon is installed and I've also
>>  installed kdeutils, but I can't seem to get the battery monitor. Can
>>  someone here tell me what to do to get the battery monitor back?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  Rick
>>
>>     
>
> Hi
>
> I don't think this has to do Klaptopdaemon or kde-guidance-powermanager.
> I would check that acpid is running and working and that the right drivers
> is loaded. Try to search the log files for something related to acpi.
> Make sure that acpi is activated in BIOS and not disabled in GRUB.
> What modules do you have loaded? Do you have battery module?
> What entries do you have in /proc/acpi speciall /proc/acpi/battery/
>
> / Jonas
>
>   
Jonas,

Acpi is running and the battery module is loaded, along with several 
other modules from /etc/default/acpid (battery ac processor button fan 
thermal bay dock).

Dmesg shows...

root at rick-laptop:~# dmesg | grep acpi
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
[    2.792000] Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.

Contents of /proc/acpi/battery...

root at rick-laptop:~# ls /proc/acpi/battery/C170
alarm  info  state
root at rick-laptop:~# ls /proc/acpi/battery/C171
alarm  info  state

Contents of /proc/acpi...

root at rick-laptop:~# ls -l /proc/acpi/
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 ac_adapter
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 alarm
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 battery
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 button
-r--------  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 dsdt
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 embedded_controller
-r--------  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:14 event
-r--------  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 fadt
dr-xr-xr-x  6 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 fan
-r--r--r--  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 info
dr-xr-xr-x 11 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 power_resource
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 processor
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 sleep
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 thermal_zone
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2008-04-22 09:31 wakeup