[tlinux-users:07413] Re: Ubuntu not getting battery

Well, I prefer to keep the breezy with gnome. I still think is a problem
with the acpi itself because of the measure errors in windows. I read in a
gentoo forum some things about fixing the dsdt and so. I think I will try
that, and post how it went. What did u ment by "modprobing" the toshiba?
Regards

On 11/5/05, golfer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 11/5/05, Cesar Santamaria <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all. In my ubuntu installation, the battery status is not shown It
> just
> > shows that the battery is dried, and need to be charged. The battery is
> > fine; seems to be a problem with the ACPI of my Sattelite L10 SP104.
> It's
> > kind of buggy: even in Windows the battery status as soon as the cable
> is
> > unplugged goes from 50 hours pending, low and low to an approximate of
> the
> > remaining power, constantly changing back and forth by minutes. Does
> > anybody had this problem with ubuntu, or other distros, even in other
> laptop
> > models? In the ubuntu documentation
> > page(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ACPIBattery) they talk about
> > getting the laptop DSDT and compiling some things for fixing this. In
> the
> > acpi.sf.net <http://acpi.sf.net> site is a list of DSDT's files, but one
> for my laptop is not
> > shown. Does anybody had this problem and has a DSDT file of this model,
> or
> > pass through this same issue and solved it succesfully? Hope for an
> answer
> > soon, thnx.
>
> I'm running kubuntu 5.10 and all works as expected with the battery.
> Did you modprobe the toshiba. KDE include kbattery, which shows and
> does all. An alternate is akpi, which you can download and build
> yourself.
>
> kbattery also includes scripts to suspend (hibernate) to disk as well
> as dimming the screen.
>
> I'm running a 3 year old Satellite 1805.
>
> regards,
>
>