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Fedora Core 1 - Battery status isn't right

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LuckyTaxi

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Just installed fedora, and I added the battery status applet to the panel. Well, it shows the battery as 0% when in actuality it's being charged.

Why doesnt this work correct?

I ran slackware 9.1 about a month ago, and this feature worked fine.
 
Is Slackware 9.1 running the same kernel revision of Fedora? Does it have the latest version of lm_sensors installed? Do they both have the same I2C options enabled in the kernel? There are a number of variables that will make one dist. behave differently from another.
 
I have the same problem, it appears that it believes that there are no batteries present. How do I find out if I'm using APM or ACPI? Any suggestions for next steps?
 
some extra info (in the event of usefulness): I have two batteries. I had installed the OS with one of them and my other bay populated with a floppy drive, regardless of whether I start it up with both batteries or just a single battery + floppy the battery status applet reports that there are no batteries installed.

-Spy
 
what command do I use to run it, and what should I be looking for? Yes I'm fairly sure the APM Daemon is running; I can double-check when I get in to the office later this morning.

Thanks for the suggestions thus-far.
 
apm It prints this for my laptop: On-line, battery status high: 100%

also, do cat /proc/apm for my laptop, I get this: 1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0x00 0x01 100% -1 ?
 
apm
AC on-line
cat /proc/apm
1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ?
(when running on utility power)
apm
AC off-line
cat /proc/apm
1.16 1.2 0x03 0x00 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ?
(when running on battery power)

apmd is running
 
Lilnux's APM module doesn't work well with a lot of APM bioses out there, strangely it works fine on my Inspiron 4100, do you have the latest BIOS?. For laptops it might be worth looking into 2.6. I've been running 2.6.0-test9 for a while now and havn't had any real problems and the ACPI support is much improved, in 2.4 ACPI wouldn't detect any batteries but 2.6 sees them both correctly.
 
That was it thanks nothinman, I was still running the A07 BIOS on this laptop which is about 2 years old now. Updating to the A12 BIOS fixed the problem.

Now I'm off to try and solve my networking issue.

-Spy
 
Bios update was my next suggestion.

I've enver had a problem with APM on either of my two IBM laptops, but have had problems with ACPI in 2.4 (patched) and 2.6.
 
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