Comments on: Gnome-Power-Notification not recieving acpi events :(

By: Jamaipanese

Jamaipanese — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:02:21 +0000

errr not afraid to say i have no idea what all this is but hope you get it fixed/corrected/worked out soon

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:07:00 +0000

Yatta’s advice to this problem was to leave it alone and comeback to it. becuase all day at work i was trouble shooting as i coded on my work terminal i was troubleshooting in my gnome terminal (pun intended) anyway i got home i ate i sat with the laptop while eating hammering away at the keys in the terminal trying to figure out why hal is being a stuck up bitch.. and i came to a common ground with ubuntu and powermanagement

conky…

i got familiar with a few new terminal commands where powermanagement or stats are concerned mainly acpi stuff. so i just edited my conkyrc file and placed the my acpi command to show my battery status in an execi tag and bam i was in session i now can know whats going on with my battery sadly it doens’t give me any really cool notifications but hmm it works. and while typing this my mind was kinda doing its lower throttle processing and I thought of something.. i’m a programmer.. and i’m kinda understanding the achitecture of linux systems i could easily write a bash executable that does what i want as a system alert when my battery status is at a level that is specify in the sh file.. and that is exactly what i will do. for now g-p-m will just keep getting the finger from the hardware abstraction layer it seems.. sigh…

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:27:29 +0000

okay.. first off i’m not crazy and i’m not talking to my self in with this blog entry…..

but why wont hal give g-p-m the acpi status changes / notifications i dont get it at all. fromw hat i’m getting to understand g-p-m cannot really do anything on its own. and the module is succesfully started which is why i see the battery icon on the panel and i can restart / hibernate / sleep from it. however h.a.l just isn’t passing the notifications so g-p-m can display the change. i’m thinking that i might use conky to display my batter meter or some other power meeter application for the time being untill i figure this out.. also i pray that edgy eft comes out and shoot all these problems to hell.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:06:50 +0000

lm sensor really solves nothing.. i finally got a step closer to configuring it. i made my own makedev.sh file and made it an executable ran it then did sensor-detect of which only 2 things got picked up i added em to my modules folder /etc/modules and then initiated them “modprobe” but then tried sources “no sources” is all i got.. i then realize that it really isn’t gonna help my g-p-m situation anyway “lm-sensor” that is.. so i removed lm-sensor and that got rid of my little problem where at bootscreen i saw setting sensor limit failed. i’m now gonna remove gkrellm and i8krelm to see if that changes anything. those were the last chagnes i can remember making before this problem started

By: Taylor

Taylor — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:03:34 +0000

did a bit more research.. anddd this is what i found..
i noticed that when my system is booting up i see this message

setting sensor limits —- failed

did a bit of googling on that and found that it had to do with the lm-sensor packages which i did set up in my paranoia of my system over heating and having a nuclear meltdown in my room :(.. anyway lm-sensors is installed but needs the i2c kernel module and a few files created form i2c in the /dev directory

tried creating them using sudo ./MAKEDEV i2c
after this is hould be able to run sensors-detect succesfully but it still gives me an error

no i2c device files found use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them

i have no clue what they mean by prog (program maybe becuase there is defiantly no prog dir in the root mount dir) any way i’m stuck there cuase i need to run sensors-detect to come any closer to my solution