Hi, I have no idea if this is gentoo problem. But since i upgraded my system (i made in one piece so i can't figure out if problem is in kernel or KDE) I can't see my battery state in battery monitor widget. It says battery not present. I'm running KDE 4.3.5, kernel 2.6.32-gentoo-r3 and every acpi and hal information about battery are right. Maybe there can be problem with two directories in /proc/acpi/battery/ (BAT0, BAT1) BAT1 is not present. $cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state present: yes capacity state: ok charging state: charged present rate: 1 mA remaining capacity: 5200 mAh present voltage: 12388 mV # hal-device | grep battery input.keymap.data = { 'e001:playpause', 'e002:stopcd', 'e003:previoussong', 'e004:nextsong', 'e005:brightnessdown', 'e006:brightnessup', 'e007:battery', 'e008:wlan', 'e009:ejectclosecd', 'e00a:suspend', 'e00b:switchvideomode', 'e00f:switchvideomode', 'e010:previoussong', 'e011:prog1', 'e012:media', 'e013:f23', 'e015:camera', 'e00c:f23', 'e019:nextsong', 'e01b:switchvideomode', 'e022:playpause', 'e024:stopcd', 'e06d:media' } (string list) 65: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_BAT0' battery.type = 'primary' (string) battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string) battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string) battery.model = 'DELL KY26691' (string) battery.vendor = 'Sanyo' (string) battery.voltage.design = 11100 (0x2b5c) (int) battery.reporting.design = 5200 (0x1450) (int) battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string) battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string) battery.present = true (bool) battery.voltage.current = 12388 (0x3064) (int) battery.reporting.rate = 1 (0x1) (int) battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool) battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool) battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool) battery.reporting.current = 5200 (0x1450) (int) battery.reporting.last_full = 4257 (0x10a1) (int) battery.charge_level.current = 47252 (0xb894) (int) battery.charge_level.last_full = 47252 (0xb894) (int) battery.charge_level.design = 57720 (0xe178) (int) battery.charge_level.rate = 11 (0xb) (int) battery.charge_level.percentage = 100 (0x64) (int) battery.serial = '318' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_battery_BAT0' (string) info.category = 'battery' (string) info.capabilities = { 'battery' } (string list) emerge --info Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/developer, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9500_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.0-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA skype-eula sun-bcla-java-vm dlj-1.1" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" 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null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="cs en" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport harness ide java nb websvccommon cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy identity mobility php profiler ruby webcommon" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
I solved it. I have also problem with k3b and somebody recommended to recompile hal with USE="policykit". Now it works perfectly.
Due to this bug I was able to solve my own battery-indicator. Unfortunately the description of the policykit use flag doesn't indicate any relation to battery information AFAICS.
