[SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

agent509 · 2010-11-26 18:48:11

I have a couple problems I'm working on solving. The first is that the battery monitor doesn't work, it just has a red x over it. I think it has something to do with acpi, when I put acpi into a terminal, I get:

Battery 0: Full, 100%, rate information unavailable

My other problem is that I'm trying to find a good gui front-end for pacman. I'm trying to get package-kit-pacman, but when I'm installing the build, I get

  GISCAN PackageKitGlib-1.0.gir
Usage: g-ir-scanner [options] sources

g-ir-scanner: error: no such option: --identifier-prefix
make[4]: *** [PackageKitGlib-1.0.gir] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/chris-admin/packagekit-pacman/src/PackageKit-0.6.9/lib/packagekit-glib2'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/chris-admin/packagekit-pacman/src/PackageKit-0.6.9/lib/packagekit-glib2'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/chris-admin/packagekit-pacman/src/PackageKit-0.6.9/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/chris-admin/packagekit-pacman/src/PackageKit-0.6.9'
make: *** [all] Error 2

something similar happens when I try to install shaman. Another one I tried was jacman. When I ran jacman, it didn't show any packages available for download.

Last edited by agent509 (2010-11-27 00:17:04)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-11-26 19:11:31

atm there really isn't any good gui package managers for arch. And regarding shaman: Shaman is dead and won't be updated, Shaman2 isn't really usable at this stage(and might not be in a long time, now that chakra have started to write their own package manager)

For the acpi issue, check that the battery module actually is loaded.

agent509 · 2010-11-26 19:45:50

sorry, Im kind of a noob, how do I do that?

karol · 2010-11-26 19:59:47

agent509 wrote:

sorry, Im kind of a noob, how do I do that?

Using lsmod:

lsmod | grep <modulename>

e.g.

[karol@black ~]$ lsmod | grep evdev
evdev                   6820  7

means the module is loaded, but

lsmod | grep abcde

returns empty so there's no abcde module loaded.

Last edited by karol (2010-11-26 20:03:03)

agent509 · 2010-11-26 20:14:53

okay, thanks, in that case, the module is loaded
it returns this:

battery 7775 0

agent509 · 2010-11-26 22:52:24

help anyone?

tvale · 2010-11-27 00:00:56

This battery issue also affects me after the new kernel update. Yes, I have the battery (and ac) module running. Even if I compile them built-in in the kernel the problem is the same.

Battery 0: Discharging, 77%, discharging at zero rate - will never fully discharge.

This also affects conky.

Last edited by tvale (2010-11-27 00:01:33)

agent509 · 2010-11-27 00:16:03

hmmm, oh well. thanks. It must just be that one battery monitor because this one that I just found is working perfectly

Last edited by agent509 (2010-11-27 00:16:41)

jowilkin · 2010-11-27 00:29:44

For a gui package manager, gtkpacman from the AUR should work. It's fairly basic and I just use the command line even though I have it installed.

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#1 2010-11-26 18:48:11

[SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#2 2010-11-26 19:11:31

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#3 2010-11-26 19:45:50

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#4 2010-11-26 19:59:47

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#5 2010-11-26 20:14:53

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#6 2010-11-26 22:52:24

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

#7 2010-11-27 00:00:56

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#8 2010-11-27 00:16:03

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#9 2010-11-27 00:29:44

Re: [SOLVED]2 problems: pacman gui, and acpi issue with battery monitor

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