Battery Monitor

Hi everybody, I'm using Arch in a brand new laptop with a Mobile Intel 965PM/GM Express Chipset and I cant get the battery monitor to work.
In my KDE Control Center, when I try to turn this on, this message is shown:
Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation. ACPI was probably enabled, but some of the sub-options were not - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' and then rebuild your kernel.
I've loaded battery, ac, thermal, button and processor, but still not working
Do I really need to recompile the kernel? Is there any solution to this?
Thanx a lot in advance.

OK, this is how I compile kernels (sorry, too lazy to type it all out again, so I'll just paste what I've posted before in another thread):
1) Update abs ("sudo abs" or run "abs" as root)
2) Copy the kernel26 directory from /var/abs/kernels to my home dir ("~/Sources" actually)
3) I use the script from this thread (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34815). Make sure you configure it appropriately, choose appendname etc., and make it executable. Then just run it from the directory where you copied your kernel to (in my case ~/Sources). It should make a new directory called kernel26-"appendname". Enter that directory.
4) If you want to add custom patches you'll have to edit PKGBUILD file manually, otherwise just run makepkg. The script changes the PKGBUILD so that you'll enter kernel configuration menu before compiling starts. Make your changes and make sure you save your configuration when choosing exit.
5) While the kernel compiles you can edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst to add entries for your new kernel. The relevant filenames will be vmlinuz26-"appendname", kernel26-"appendname", and kernel26-"appendname"-fallback.
6) run sudo pacman -A kernel_package_name
That would get you a custom compiled and custimized kernel from current... You will need to do a bit more, since your goal will be to build a different version.
It would be probably good to read what the wiki says about ABS and makepkg, so you get the sense of how it all works, I would probably also check out the wiki on how to downgrade packages... PKGBUILD is essentially a set of instructions for building from source, so it will take care of everything from downloading sources to making a package that can be later installed with pacman. You would have to edit the PKGBUILD created by the script in the above example to tell the script which version of sources to use and such, and probably also fix things like md5sums, versions of patches, or even get rid of some patches if they are not important for you. It takes a while to figure all the details out, but once you learn the procedure it's all very easy.
You can also look up the differences between different kernel PKGBUILDs using the CVS part of the website. Here is a link to the differences between the current and the last 2.6.21 kernel PKGBUILD: http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcv … f_format=h

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I wanted to have a BB for a long time. My gf had a 9900 and even though the camera stopped working randomly, it was very reliable. I used the Q10 shortly after it launched and I noticed at that time that I need more apps than BB World can offer flipboard, banking and just a few others, so I didn't make the switch then. Now with the classic, which has android runtime and the toolbelt (which i really liked on the 9900) I thought it's time to make the switch. But I find it surprisingly annoying exactly where I expected to see its strenght - reliability.
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First thing I would do is to switch the following off:
Contacts > Settings
Automatically Merge Contacts = Off
Unmerge Existing Contacts = On
Just to clarify, do you have all the contacts phone numbers in the format
+40 xxx xxx xxx ?
This would be ideal.
Blackberry Engineering in Switzerland - Dexion Services AG

KDE battery monitor not detecting laptop battery

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[SOLVED] Conky Battery Monitor

I've setup conky to do have a battery monitor bar. However, it always says zero %. How do I modify this? Here is the relevant line from the conkyrc:
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Last edited by anirudh215 (2011-10-22 07:41:30)

To hell with conky's variables! Try this:
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Thanks, but that didn't help much. The only thing resetting the SMC seemed to do was to make the battery "remaining charge" more accurate. Basically, it now tells me after unplugging with a full charge that I have 15 minutes remaining. The "battery low warning" also now appears. But my battery life is even more dismal than ever. Also, I just checked the system profile. Here's my battery stats NOW:
Manufacturer: Sony
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PCB Lot Code: 0000
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Cell Revision: 0303
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Install KDEMOD, cant find a battery monitor applet

Hi there,
I'm new to Arch... I've been an Ubuntu user for about two years now. I was attracted to Arch one very specific thing:
Rolling-Release... It just sucks to be stuck with the same old apps when everyone else (including the windows crowd) has cutting-edge features. So this just rocks in my book. I read that stability in Arch is good enough despite being extremely up-to-date so great.
While doing my research I of course tried gentoo... Which I dislike so much after being left without a computer for 2 days straight while emerge downloaded, compiled and installed gnome. I have a slow connection (200mbps)... Maybe if downloads where asyncronous to compiling it would be slightly better.
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darn it, my first post should've been something better lol
Well the package in kdemod is called:
kdemod-kdeutils-klaptopdaemon
It works now

Battery monitor 3 doesn't work fine.

Hi,
Recentl I have downloaded battery monitor 3 app from store.
That doesn't work fine as I have to manually touch on it to show the updated remaining average use!
Any ideas?
Thank you.
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It's working fine for me.
I have noticed that it is possible to deselect all the estimates in the main app screen so wonder if that could be your problem. Make sure that at least one icon has a grey background as in the attached grab - 04 selected, 05 deselected.
I don't remember being able to deselect "Average Use" in earlier versions.
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for those who are having problem running nokia battery monitor on c5-03 its because the batterymonitor widget file doesnt get installed during installation. you can use sis content to open the nokia battery monitor sis file and extract wrt_power_app.wgz file from it. then install nokia battery monitor and wrt_power_app.wgz both on your phone. reboot and your battery monitor will work. worked for me
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http://pastebin.com/SiKRS1dh
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Apart from this... enjoy the new app from Ovi Store!
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Good to know . I am going to try it.
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Prob with policykit1-kde; battery monitor? [SOLVED]

Is anybody else getting this message when starting KDE4.4.1?
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Last edited by dhave (2010-03-24 10:29:47)

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