Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde3 (52 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/26/2011 07:26 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:
> Hey David, did we ever get a fix for the powersave issue?  I just
> added 11.4/KDE3 to my laptop and the lack of the power meter is a pain
> as you mentioned......
>
> Debating going back to 11.0 and giving up on newer versions.......11.0
> still does everthing i need.  Althought 11.4 does seems to use
> slightly less RAM

Larry,

  Never did. Honestly, I haven't checked in a while. I'm on my 11.4/kde3 laptop 
right now - still no kpowersave battery icon in the tray. Clicking on kmenu -> 
System -> Desktop -> kpowersave launches and restores the icon to systray. The 
"battery meter" is working, but looks like it needs to configure itself again to 
know the proper time left. I think that will happen automatically during the 
first batter cycle.

  I needed to configure kpowersave to start on login again. Configure 
kpowersave -> General Settings -> Miscellaneous -> Autostart [X] KPowersave 
starts automatically on login.

  Looks like Ilya worked a bit more magic and got it working again. Great job 
Ilya. I don't know if this is the old kpowersave or if this is upower with the 
kpowersave interface on it -- can you fill us in Ilya?  Regardless, it seems to 
be working again.

  HTH Larry.

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:45 PM, David C. Rankin
> <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 04/06/2011 12:36 PM, Robert Xu wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37, David C. Rankin
> > > <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
> > > > On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin
> > > > > <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>      wrote:
> > > > > > Bummer :(
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   How will I know if my laptop battery is about to run out?
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you do:
> > > > >
> > > > > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT#/*
> > > > >
> > > > > ?   Replace # with 0 or 1.
> > > > >
> > > > > That's how I keep an eye on my battery on my old Thinkpad because it
> > > > > reports incorrectly, so it tries to shutdown with 50% power so I have
> > > > > to kill powersaved to keep using it.
> > > > >
> > > > > I open a small terminal and use watch with the above command.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Larry,
> > > >
> > > >   That will work in the interim until we get a fix in Trinity. Robert, you
> > > > know anything about this in Trinity?
> > >
> > > Yes, hence the move to upower upcoming as soon as cmake is done.
> >
> > You da man... :p
> >
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> > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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