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 wrote:

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On 04/06/2011 12:36 PM, Robert Xu wrote:

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On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:37, David C. Rankin wrote:

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On 04/06/2011 08:55 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:43 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

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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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