On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Bug# 484779 is affecting me, since I don NOT use desktop environment
> (neither KDE nor GNome). There are several tools I use for power
> management (laptop Compaq 8510w), between them a couple of tools I
> use:
>
> acpitool
use acpi:
acpi -V
Battery 0: Discharging, 24%, 00:01:05 remaining
AC Adapter 0: off-line
Thermal 0: ok, 54.0 degrees C
Thermal 1: ok, 47.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 8 of 15
Cooling 1: LCD 0 of 15
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
> cpufreqd
not as good as the in kernel ones, just install cpufrequtils
> Both look for /proc/acpi/battery contents, on to report battery
> information (-B) and the other to decide how to regulate the
> processors frequency. The case of cpufreq is really fatal to me under
> kernel image 2.6.25-2-amd64 (# CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER is not set),
> since as there's no battery info under /proc/acpi/battery, cpufreq no
> longer has criteria to decide, and thus stops deciding forcing slowest
> frequency (for me the rank of frequencies goes from 800MHz to 2.2GHz,
> so cpufreq forces this 2.2GHz on AC power @ 800MHz, how sad can that
> be?), see:
>
> Jul 21 11:07:34 jevv-ofic cpufreqd: acpi_battery_init : error,
> acpi_battery module not compiled or inserted (/proc/acpi/battery/: No
> such file or directory)?
> Jul 21 11:07:34 jevv-ofic cpufreqd: acpi_battery_init : exiting.
>
> The result of the mentioned bug is to merge it to a KDE one, which
> doesn't have anything to do with acpitool neither cpufreqd.
>
> I order to get my laptop working I had to recompile the kernel:
cloning the report and reassigning to those packages.
best regards
--
maks
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