Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

webdawg · 2010-12-28 04:06:09

I am having a problem with xfce. I have arch installed on an ibm t61 and everything seems to work great.

Right now, if the laptop is plugged in, the 'battery is charging' bubble/tip keeps flashing on and off in the right hand corner. Also with this laptop if I head into the xfce4-power-manager the lid close and power button options are greyed out.

Any help? I do not even know where to start to look.

Thanks,

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moetunes · 2010-12-28 05:57:28

In "pacman -Ss xfce" there is "xfce4-power-manager" do you have it installed?

pogeymanz · 2010-12-28 16:25:59

You probably are missing one of:

acpi
acpid
pm-utils (I don't know if xfce4-power-manager needs this guy)

So pacman -S each of those and make sure to add acpid to rc.conf daemons array unless you also run hal (hal loads acpid automatically)

webdawg · 2011-01-05 02:16:08

I have done all of this. The items you mention are installed. The daemons are started. Still, nothing.

Anyone know where I should be looking?

webdawg · 2011-01-11 01:55:54

Well. I had myself added to power and storage. I think it had something to do with my hal.conf

I added these lines because I had another device that was not mounting...it works now:

hal just gets more and more complicated

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#1 2010-12-28 04:06:09

Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

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Re: Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

#3 2010-12-28 16:25:59

Re: Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

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Re: Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

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Re: Xfce power manager - Battery is charging

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