Re: Gnome Power Manager + Debian Sid: does not recognize battery state and notification symbol not shown

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:52:26 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > But battery state is not recognized. It says always "running on AC
> > > Power" and no battery symbol is displayed.
> > > 
> > > Can someone please help or verify this behaviour?
> > 
> > A recent upgade to acpi caused it to stop loading all the acpi modules
> > (search the debian-laptop list). When you do 'acpi' at the command
> > line, do you get a batter reading, or an error about the battery
> > module not being present? If the latter, you need to load the
> > 'battery' module into the kernel ('modprobe battery'). If that works,
> > add it (and any other modules you need, such as 'button, thermal',
> > etc) to '/etc/modules' so it (they) will load on startup.
> 
> The bug is trivial, a typo in the /etc/init.d/acpid script, and you can
> fix it yourself. Look for line 32 (indent same as original):
> 
>         MODPROBE_OPTIONS="$MODPROBE_OPTIONS -Q"
> 
> and change the -Q option with -q

Thanks! I already added the modules to /etc/modules, s I suppose I'll
just wait until they fix the script.

Celejar