Re: tp_smapi config

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> writes:

> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:23:35 -0400
> tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> Winfried Tilanus <winfried@tilanus.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Install the tp_smapi modules. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi
>> > for more information.
>> 
>> oops. I'm missing something. I just installed the tp-smapi packages for
>> my kernel, and according to the documentation on thinkwiki, I can set
>> the start and stop thresholds with this:
>> 
>>     echo 40 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh 
>>     echo 70 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh 
>> 
>> Except that there is no /sys/devices/platform/smapi directory on my
>> system, and I cannot create the directory with mkdir. I searched my
>> entire system for smapi directories, BAT0 directories, or files names
>> {start,stop}_charge_thresh, but none exist. I tried rebooting, in case
>> there was some mystic kernel thing going on, but that didn't help. I
>> tried modprobe -l, which confirmed that the smapi modules were loaded:
>> 
>
> do lsmod to make sure that they are loaded
>

lsmod | grep smapi 

produces nothing, so they aren't loaded. How do I load them? I'm not
using a custom kernel, so the instructions on ThinkWiki lead me to
believe that all I needed to do was

aptitude install tp-smapi-modules-`uname -r`

I guess there's more to it?

Thanks,

Tyler


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