topic title: BAttery not found
Posts: 7
mirparx
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
#1
Hi all,

I've just started using antix and all goes ok except a strange issue with the battery ( my laptop is a compaq nc6000).

I've tried to add battery monitoring on conky, but without success.

Checking in Hardinfo, it says"no batteries found on this system", but the computer is working ok on battery, and the battery is correctly recognised and monitored in ubuntu.

Do you have any suggestion on how to investigate / fix this?

Thanks a lot,
mirparx
Posts: 1,520
eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#2
You may just have the wrong battery listed in conky. If you have BAT0 listed try changing it to BAT1. Mine is seen BAT1.

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${color white}${execi 10 (acpi -b | awk '{print $3, $4}')} ${color white}${battery_bar BAT1}
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mirparx
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
#3
You helped me a lot!!

from your suggestion I've noticed acpi was not installed!!

after installing it (apt-get install acpi ) all iw working on!

Thanks again!!
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eriefisher
Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#4
What version of antiX are you using? I find it hard to believe there was no acpi???
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mirparx
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
#5
it-s a 8.2 I think.

how can I be sure about the version?

(even if now acpi -b allow me to see the battery level, hardinfo still says no battery found)
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plvera
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
#6
in a terminal, type inxi -F
you'll get the version and a lot of system info as well.
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mirparx
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
#7
mirparx@Bandito:~$ inxi -F
System: Host Bandito Kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.2 Tȟašúŋke Witkó - Crazy Horse 24 July 2009
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium M (UP) cache 1024 KB flags (sse2) bmips 2792.22 clocked at 1400.00 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10] X.Org 1.4.2 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa GLX Indirect GLX Version 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.4) Direct Rendering No
Audio: Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 3000 3880
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.17
Network: Card-1 Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter driver ipw2100 v: git-1.2.2
Card-2 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M_2 Gigabit Ethernet driver tg3 v: 3.94
Disks: HDD Total Size: 30.0GB (7.4% used) 1: /dev/hda FUJITSU MHT2030AT 30.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 4.6G used: 2.1G (48%) ID:swap-1 size: 1.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
Info: Processes 82 Uptime 11 min Memory 123.5/502.5MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.17