Bug 613398

Summary:	No battery detected in a laptop (as a result, battery levels are not available)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Jeremy Figgins <jeremy.figgins>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	forgotten_xI2C5NvggO, jakub, jim.sublette, opensuse.lietuviu.kalba, ramib85
Version:	Milestone 7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:	615632
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	y2logs of a dell 6400 ,opensuse 11.3 rc1 logs from Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577

Description Jeremy Figgins 2010-06-10 21:36:11 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 SUSE/3.5.9-0.1.1 Firefox/3.5.9

I installed with the KDE4 option. In the default desktop, there is no battery monitor. After installing the battery monitor widget, it says that there is no battery present in the system. The power management application also states that there is no battery. This is an Acer Aspire 3000 series laptop and the battery level was available in openSUSE 11.1 and previous (I never tried 11.2 on this particular laptop).

I checked to make sure that this wasn't a symptom of bug #591703; it wasn't. The laptop pattern was installed.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeremy Figgins 2010-06-11 13:38:32 UTC

Upon rebooting (after the initial installation boot), the battery monitor started working. I'm downgrading this bug to "minor" as a result.

Comment 2 Jim Sublette 2010-06-18 02:04:54 UTC

I have the same issue.  A reboot does not fix it.  acpi recognizes the battery is there.  This is a toshiba A205-S4577 laptop. /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state sees the battery.  Install is a fresh 11.3 rc1 kde install.  Added the battery widget.  rebooted.. battery has an red x through it.

Comment 3 Rami Baksansky 2010-06-18 05:45:28 UTC

I can confirm the same issue as Jim on my Dell 6400 inspiron.
battery widget has a red x through it.
advanced battery settings are disabled in powerdevil.

Comment 4 Jozef Uhliarik 2010-06-18 10:41:16 UTC

Please attach y2logs.If you are in doubt follow:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST
Thanks!

Comment 5 Rami Baksansky 2010-06-18 11:09:12 UTC

Created attachment 370043 [details]
y2logs of a dell 6400 ,opensuse 11.3 rc1

Comment 6 Jim Sublette 2010-06-18 20:37:41 UTC

Created attachment 370208 [details]
logs from Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577

logs from Toshiba Satellite A205-S4577

Comment 7 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2010-06-18 23:03:23 UTC

openSUSE 11.3 RC1 installed from KDE LiveCD (32 bit) on HP Pavillion dv6315ea. 
Also didn't recognized battery.

Works for me after installing „hal“ package.

Comment 8 Jim Sublette 2010-06-19 03:02:23 UTC

installing hal fixed my issue also.  thanks

Comment 9 Rami Baksansky 2010-06-19 06:30:31 UTC

installing hal fixed my issue also.

Comment 10 Jakub Jerabek 2010-06-19 19:09:44 UTC

installing hal fixed the problem also on DELL Latitude E6400

Comment 11 Jeremy Figgins 2010-06-20 12:46:44 UTC

Comments 5 and 6 supply the logs for two different affected systems. I'm removing the "NEEDINFO" status.

Comment 12 Mindaugas Baranauskas 2010-06-20 13:37:19 UTC

(In reply to bug#613898 comment #23)
> I think, there is already some fix in factory as hal is installed and running
> when installing with post-RC1
> http://download.opensuse.org/factory/iso/openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-x86_64-Build0679-Media.iso
> 
> A workaround for those who installed MS7/RC1, could be thus:
> sudo zypper in hal ; sudo /sbin/insserv haldaemon ; sudo /sbin/reboot

I close this bug