when starting wmbattery get No APM, ACPI, or SPIC support in kernel. This is in error, i think, I have all kernel options set. It began when switching to 2.6.36-r5. most acpi stuff broke, including cpufreq scaling, and wmbattery. recompiled everything emerge -u --deep --newuse world, no improvement. will report the other broken acpi related code -- acpid, cpufrequtils. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run run wmbattery 2. 3. Actual Results: Jan 7 17:21:04 xxx logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT0 00000080 00000001 Jan 7 17:21:04 xxx logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT1 00000080 00000000 Jan 7 17:22:26 xxx logger: ACPI event unhandled: battery BAT0 00000080 00000001 get unhandled messages on battery and cpu when unplugged power. Double checked /etc/acpi/events, no change. seems the software is not parsing the log properly. Expected Results: battery icon imforming available time. hp envy 14. kernel 2.6.36-r5
Chances are that many of those programs may no longer be using /etc/acpi/events - that that interface was deprecated quite awhile ago.
(In reply to comment #1) > Chances are that many of those programs may no longer be using /etc/acpi/events > - that that interface was deprecated quite awhile ago. > Yes, I think acpi still uses /etc/acpi dir if http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml is accurate. I had it working fine, until 2.6.36-r5 kernel was pulled and I compiled/installed. I just added the acpi problem to show all acpi like software has broken.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Chances are that many of those programs may no longer be using /etc/acpi/events > > - that that interface was deprecated quite awhile ago. > > > > Yes, I think acpi still uses /etc/acpi dir if > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml > is accurate. I had it working fine, until 2.6.36-r5 kernel > was pulled and I compiled/installed. > > I just added the acpi problem to show all acpi like software has broken. > did the following and it works. guess there is some emerge or config problem? : (hack hack) ebuild /usr/portage/x11-plugins/wmbattery/wmbattery-2.40.ebuild unpack cd /var/tmp/portage/x11-plugins/wmbattery-2.40/distdir/ tar zxvf wmbattery_2.40.tar.gz cd wmbattery make ./wmbattery there is really something screwy, there is a compound if in the main function of the code that throws the error. It happens for battery count < 1 or acpi function returning 0, but not sure why its getting faulting info. maybe a portage/emerge guru could look this over. The other reason could be its including an older .h, but I doubt that.
I misread your post - I meant /proc/acpi/ which is disabled in that guide. The answer is likely trivial - ebuild disables hal, as it's obsolete on modern desktops (or it shortly will be - xfce shall release in about 2 weeks, KDE before the end of the month (both rc are already in the tree)).
(In reply to comment #4) > I misread your post - I meant /proc/acpi/ which is disabled in that guide. > > The answer is likely trivial - ebuild disables hal, as it's obsolete on modern > desktops (or it shortly will be - xfce shall release in about 2 weeks, KDE > before the end of the month (both rc are already in the tree)). > okay here is the latest. after doing the ebuild (In reply to comment #4) > I misread your post - I meant /proc/acpi/ which is disabled in that guide. > > The answer is likely trivial - ebuild disables hal, as it's obsolete on modern > desktops (or it shortly will be - xfce shall release in about 2 weeks, KDE > before the end of the month (both rc are already in the tree)). > after doing: ebuild ... unpack configure make make install I went back to emerge the software: sudo emerge wmbattery It now works, duh! thanks for listening. more to come, bashing my head trying to get the hp envy 14 1100 to work using fluxbox (issues : power manage/video (has dual card ati/intel, synaptics clickpad (quite a zoo with this. driver hell!)
Frankly running "make install" is just a way to eventually break you system. But it seems you're willing.
