Unable to get APM working -- help!

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:26, security at revolutionsp.com wrote:
> I'll try it out; meanwhile, I've discovered the sysctl to change this
> manually. I've checked it works by trying to compile something at the
> lowest CPU clock speed. It was slow to hell :-)

That's probably clock throttling which is different..

[Enhanced] Speed Step reduces the clock speed and the CPU core voltage.. clock 
throttling just idles the CPU for a certain proportion of the time. If you 
want slow try forcing them both to the slowest speed.. Pentium-M 75Mhz :)

> > Any chance there is a new BIOS available for that system?
>
> A quick googling session brought up nothing.

How about say, checking the makers web site?

> > No.. If I try and look at a non existent battery slot it says 'device not
> > configured' so maybe it thinks you have no batteries for some strange
> > reason.
>
> I've installed klaptop and it shows battery as -1 and 'not charging'
> acpiconf -i[0-9] didn't do any good either :/

Without ACPI support being able to read your battery status no userland 
program will work.

Your dmesg shows acpi_cmbat entries, ie
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0

which I think is pretty fundamental to being able to read battery status ;)


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