On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 06:31:46AM +0200, tobias@justdreams.de wrote:

Quoting Thomas Bächler :

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- xfce4 battery meter seems broken (please confirm)

Why only xfce? If only one user reported that, I guess it is an ACPI problem on this machine that is not xfce-specific, but rather machine-specific (and the reporter happens to use xfce). Due to the heavy ACPI changes in this release, this seems likely.

My best guess is the following: Problems in 2.6.20 were related to the fact that acpi modules firstly were not loaded by default for most of the users. Hence, no directory /proc/acpi/bat existed. The xfce4-battery-plugin resolves the issue by showing that 50% thingy.

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From the release logs, IIRC, as of 2.6.21 the acpi stuff moves now from /proc/acpi to /sys. This is supposed to be work in progress, but the battery stuff might be already affected. (I'm fishing here, I didn't check the patches)

-T

Actually, I'm the one who has a problem with xfce, 2.6.21, and the battery monitor. Using 2.6.20 (with modules) it works but using 2.6.21 (with modules) it doesn't. The acpi command still works, but the panel battery monitor doesn't. Someone else try it! Make me not look crazy! Jason

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:55:09AM +0200, tobias@justdreams.de wrote:

Quoting Jason Chu :

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From the release logs, IIRC, as of 2.6.21 the acpi stuff moves now from /proc/acpi to /sys. This is supposed to be work in progress, but the

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stuff might be already affected. (I'm fishing here, I didn't check the

battery patches)

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-T

Actually, I'm the one who has a problem with xfce, 2.6.21, and the battery monitor. Using 2.6.20 (with modules) it works but using 2.6.21 (with modules) it doesn't. The acpi command still works, but the panel battery monitor doesn't.

Someone else try it! Make me not look crazy! Hehehe, I doubt you're crazy, I said I'm fishing. I can try it on my testing laptop by tomorrow. That the acpi command still works is a hint that /proc/acpi/battery still exists and the battery-monitor uses a different method to read out information. But, glancing over the code, the battery-monitor uses a libacpi.c file reading from hard-coded /proc/acpi/... directory. Can you see if you still have a /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 directory and post the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/* please?

The /proc/acpi/batter/BAT0 directory exists and the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/* is this: [jchu@wingnut ~]$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/* alarm: 9055 mAh present: yes design capacity: 7800 mAh last full capacity: 6798 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 11100 mV design capacity warning: 780 mAh design capacity low: 236 mAh capacity granularity 1: 78 mAh capacity granularity 2: 78 mAh model number: DELL YG3106 serial number: 1948 battery type: LION OEM info: SMP present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charged present rate: 1 mA remaining capacity: 7800 mAh present voltage: 12585 mV Jason

Hi found a patch for ivtv it is building now. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org