Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (6) </ [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: no apm or acpi, my laptop bios has it....< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
arew264 Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 51
Joined: April 2005
Posted: June 23 2005,21:10 QUOTE
Hey. I have a Dell CPi D400xt that I have DSL running on very well except that I would really like a bettery monitor. I have searched and searched for this, and tried all the solutions I could find, but none seem to work. BTW This machine can and will be used as a guinea pig and i have nothing to lose on it. I have checked the bios and have verified that ACPI is enabled. I did not see any notes about apm, so I'm guessing thats its not there.... i guess..... Here i will list what I have tried:

Installed wmacpi successfully. When started from mydsl menu nothing happens, when started from xterm: No batteries or ACPI not supported.

Installed wmapm successfully. when started from terminal: No APM support in kernel.

Installed wmbattery from synaptic successfully. when started from terminal: Error: no APM support in kernel.

I stopped short of installing wmpower because I figured that it would yield the same results. Is there something special that I have to do to get ACPI or APM to work?

PS I have to use i8k on this laptop for the fans (the thermal sensor is dead and its $200 to replace it), but i8k has not been reinstalled since the last problem invloving a repartition arose.
Back to top
Profile PM 
arew264
Unregistered
Posted: June 24 2005,17:30 QUOTE
FYI:
I8k is now installed (interface to Dell bios to get fans started, etc)

ANy help would be greatly appreciated, and if you need to know something I have not posted, please tell me.
Back to top
arew264
Unregistered
Posted: June 24 2005,23:49 QUOTE
After thinking outside the distro, I searched the internet and found that I needed to install a kernel acpi patch to get it to work with my system.... I hope.... I need the patch acpi-20040326-2.4.26.diff.gz, but the kernel version is so old that I can't find it. does anyone know where I could get it?
Back to top
Supermuncher Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4
Joined: June 2005
Posted: June 25 2005,13:53 QUOTE
Have almost the same problem. As far as I can tell the probleme really is the Kernel. I decided to opt for another Distro as I had no luck in patching it or using any ACPI work arounds. I also tried to find the acpi 2.4.26 patch but as you said, it so old by now that it would be more luck than anything else. Couldn't even find it in Archives.

Going for a Debian Sarge install with Kernel 2.6. However this takes up somewhere around 300-600Mb. With all the Software more like 1Gig (like Icewm, Xine, OpenOffice, Pdfreader, Firefox,Thunderbird etc.) Thats the price you have to pay for the newer super sized kernel. Can understand why their sticking with 2.4
Back to top
Profile PM 
arew264
Unregistered
Posted: June 25 2005,14:49 QUOTE
Well, considering that my laptop is a Dell Latitude D300xt that runs at 300mhz and has a 6.4g hard drive, and also considering that I have tried to run Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix, and Kandrake with no luck, I guess I'm just going to have to rely on the old battery light. If anyone has an idea, let ne know at arew264 at gmail.com. Thanks for posting.
Back to top
28 replies since June 23 2005,21:10 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (6) </ [1] 2 3 4 5 6 ... >/ 		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: no apm or acpi

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code