It looks like a SSE2 problem, someone with an SSE2 laptop needs to recompile from the source package

But it work on 10.4.6 with sse2...

That is 8.4.1 kernel and the kext was probably compiled on that kernel, with new 8.8.1 kernel there may be parameters that need to be changed. From reading the thread and from my own laptop, it doesn't seem to be a problem with SSE3 and I use that kext in leopard and 4.9 with 8.1 kernel, so I know its not a 4.8 problem

doesn't work on Dell Latitude D800 with the latest JaS DVD 10.4.8 SS3,SSE2...

doesn't work on a Pentium 4 M with Jas DVD 10.4.8 SSE2, SSE3

Hmm...odd. When I try to move the powermanagement.bundle, I pressed authenticate, entered my password, yet still told me I did not have sufficient priviliges to do such a thing...any suggestions?

send the existing to the trash, it will ask for authenticate.
then place the new one and repair permissions, it's a little odd, it seems we can't overwrite directly.

Ah! Now it is running perfectly, thank you so much!
Now, the only thing left before I have a perfect Hackintosh is this damn Audio...GOD somebody help me.

Is working again on my tabletpc, using jas 10.4.8 SSE2

how??

Yes I would also like to know how you did it! A detailed How to would be exellent, since I also have a sse2 and uptil now only had kernel panic when trying...

It is really strange at first my notebooks fan is nice and quiet and all of a sudden (without any big operations going on) the fan goes crazy.... under 10.4.7 this was not the case...

Weird. Apparently it's been working for me. I can read my battery level, though in settings it will tell me things like it's at 125% (tho reads 100% on the top menu). My fan goes on and off regularly as it did in XP (ie: heats up a little, fan turn on quietly, cools off, fan disables). This didn't solve any problems with sleep or safe sleep (both still lock up, or never return the screen.. whatever happens I have to reboot). But it did solve the battery level thing. I haven't run on batteries yet, tho the wireless 2200 drivers appear to be "workable" now so if that's true I'll be testing out the battery soon too.

Don't remember doing anything special aside from following the "install isntructions" which I think was nothing more than copying some files and checking permissions....?

Hey guys here is the detailed tutorial I followed, I wrote it couple of months ago so that I would not forget on how to do it and the only different thing I did this time is download the newest version of PowerManagement bundle. But instructions are all the same, just get the new file from the beginning of this forum, follow my instruction and hopefully it will also work on my computer and good as it is working right now on mine. Any questions let me know here and I am more than willing to try to help.

Does anyone know where to find that IOSMBusController.h ? I'm willing to have another go at hacking something for my HP nc6000 because it appears only something trivial is going wrong:

a) battery is only recognized after re-inserting it
charge is 99% until the last few minutes, then it suddenly drops very quickly, from looking at the charge reported it appears that the battery just uses a different scale to report it's charge (sorry, don't know the details right now - last time I looked at it was months ago)

Samsung X20 1.6GHZ SSE2
1GB DDR RAM
80GB HDD Dualboot with OS X 10.4.8 JaS with 8.8.1 Kernel & Win Vista.
Intel GMA 900
CI & QE supported

Now it is running perfectly, thank you so much! 

Can somebody please tell me why the battery percentage is not indicated in my 8.8.1 system, always showing 0%? The %age is displayed correcty in my 10.4.8 install with 8.4.1 Maxxuss kernel, so obviously I know how to install it (same kext from page 1 in both installs ) ..

Must be some 10.4.8 kext(s), right? 'Cause that's pretty much the only modules which differ from .4 to .8 kernel sys from what I know !?

Has anyone noticed that the fan is very loud and active, unless you boot Windows first and then do a "warm" restart? Seems like some ACPI registers need to be initialized, which Windows apparently does and which is persistent even through a "warm" reboot. Reproducable.

Any chances to port this kind of functionality (http://gaugusch.at/kernel.shtml) in OSX?
I mean just loading DSDT and "overwriting" the one from BIOS/firmware/whatever. I think that could solve some problems people are experiencing with their hardware.
For my Toshiba laptop with this patch I am able to use most of hardware still being able to use acpi functions.

Cheers,
mentorek

Weird situation. Reinstalled MacOS on my Acer 5672WLMi from JaS 10.4.8 Intel.AMD.SSE2.SSE3 and PowerManagement.bundle doesn't work
Seems to be the syetems doesn't detect that it's laptop (at the beginning installer said that I'm trying to install MacOS without AC power). What should I fix to get PowerManagement working?

Hey, guys.

You know, this is all good and great, but i've got something to ask:
Has anyone noticed the battery life under this kex is MUCH shorter than in windows?
Could someone elaborate, please(with solutions if possible).

computer: HP TC4200, SpeedStep disabled in bios.

Thank you.

Under Windows, the processor is throttled down in order to save energy.
This kext doesn't do that, it "just" shows the battery in the menu bar, but does no actual power saving, as far as I understand it. The current kernel lacks the required functionality.

Exactly the same thing here. Did you ever have the Tray-Icon working correctyl with a 8.8.1 (10.4.8) kernel install (I didn't, just with 10.4.4 kernel). If so, with which?

Cheers,
Bugs

Yes I did. It worked properly in the previous installation. I have backup of this version. It is Jas Install DVD Intel only (no PPF1).

since upgrading to 10.4.8 with the 8.8.1 kernel my laptop loses the picture when the lid is closed and reopened (it doesnt sleep) and when the sleep function is selected it goes to sleep but doesnt wake to allow access to the screen/computer.

was ok under 10.4.8 without newer kernel. i tried replacing the poewrmanagement.bundle but while that restores the battery icon/life remaining thing, sleep control don't know.

any ideas please? thanks.

Sorry guys is this is very basic, but I read the entire thread and I want to know:

Is this "fix" already included in the final Jas 10.4.8 DVD? Or I have to include the files on this thread to be complete?

I installed the DVD version on my AMD laptop and I get the battery indicator with all the options for time or percent, but If I run on batteries, it shows that it drops down very fast!
If I boot in windows the batttery drops much much slower.
Is this normal?

Ric

yes

still works well on a IBM T41 Laptop running 10.4.8 sse2 8.8.1 kernel:
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I didn't get the battery indicator out of the box like you did, even though I isntalled the Jas 10.4.8, but i have intel.. anyhow I used this bundle to get the indicator..

now i have it, but i have the same problem as you do, on batteries it shows the power to drop very fast, and i think its a flaw coz in reality it is not dropping that fast (you can check using the battery indicator under the laptop, that one shows normal drop), so basically this indicator is just for show, it is decieving i think.

Please let me know if anyone has any input on this.

Hi all,

my first post and first native os x. I'm running it on an Samsung Q35 (Centrino Duo).

The first osx I used has been the 10.4.4 on the machine and the indicator in the menubar worked well. Now, with 10.4.6, the indicator doesn't load up - even if invoked manually.

The biggest thing I noticed was that the miniStat2 widget CAN read out the battery percentage although not able to calculate time remaining.

Can someone please verify this?

Thanks
Sascha

Not sure what I am doing wrong but I can not make PowerManagement bundle work on 10.4.8 JAS installed on HP NC0230. Has any of similar NX/NW/NC HP laptops owners this patch working in 10.4.8? Any suggestions are highly appreciated.

after updateting to 10.4.9 the my battery is not recognized any longer and the battery indicator disapeared.
Can s.o. validate this, or did i miss sth to restore after the update.

Yeah, It's broken for me also.

Confirmed its broken.


Replacing AppleCPUPowerManagement.kext doesnt work

works fine for me!!! after updatin to 1049 i removed AppleCPUPowerManagement.kext cuz i am using nohpet kernel!!

I too had problems with the Power management bundle after upgrading to 10.4.9...But I fixed it by downloading and installing SlimBateryMonitor....Here is the Link: http://www.orange-carb.org/SBM/downloads.html ...I will not garentee it will work out for you but my guess is that mine just needed a kick start..... Hope this helps someone....

Phil

THANK YOU!!!

This worked like a charm on my ACER Travelmate!
Got battery monitor back, got sound, CD burning, PS/2 trackpad and mouse! All I need is wireless and I'll have a $500 Macbook!

Mac OS 10.4.5 (Jas DVD)
Acer TravelMate 2480
Intel Celeron 1.6GHz (sse2 patch)
RealTek Audio (Patched)
PS/2 keyboard and trackpad (patched)
Intel 950 graphics (1280 x800, no patch needed)
TSST corp CDRW/DVD-Rom (Burning, no patch needed)
no Wi-Fi / no ethernet

weird weird ,I got same problema as above , 10.4.8 new installed and no battery even with Powermanagement , on the same laptop ,with the same 10.4.8 all were working well..and the most weird thing has been the battery was working during installation....????

Cool, I just installed the Power management bundle for my laptop along with SlimBatteryMonitor and I now have accurate battery usage measurement/readings. Thanks for pointing to this free download.

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Gateway MX3701
Intel Core duo T2050 (1.6 Ghz) Both cores working
1 Gig DDR2 533 ram
ATI X200m video (grrr)
SigmaTel 9200 (not working)
Logitech V20 USB speakers (working)
Yukon 80038 Wan Ethernet (working)
Wireless (not working...yet)
Power management (working great)

Worked for me but the instructions on the first thread are incomplete. Jas 10.4.8 SSE2 Dell Centrino Laptop.
Here is what I did to get mine working properly

1. Download the PowerManagement.tar.gz file below to your favorite location
2. Un-archive the files. This will leave you with a PowerManagement.bundle
3. Navigate to: /System/Library/SystemConfiguration
4. (Optional) Backup your old PowerManagement.bundle - copy file to another folder
5. Right click old powermanagement.bundle and select move to trash
6. Copy (drag-n-drop) the new bundle into the SystemConfiguration folder
7. Run " sudo diskutil repairPermissions " from the terminal
8. Reboot

I have found a bug. On my laptop when I have a single battery installed this application works fine. When I have two batteries installed it shows two battery icons with an AC plug logo when I am not plugged in. It thinks the one battery is charging the other and shows a timer displaying how long until the system is fully charged! Very strange but at least the percentage readout seems accurate.

awesome!!! worked great on my compaq presario m2202TU

cheers

Any ideas why this was working on the JaS 10.4.8 SSE2 8.4.1 kernel, when it isn't working with a re-install on JaS 10.4.8 SSE 2 with the 8.8.1 kernel?

The thing that's annoying is the permissions.. "su" just gives me a "su: sorry" error, and i can't just copy any paste.... At the same time, i can't "Enable Root User" on NetINFO Manager...

Very Useful! it works fine on my Portege m200. thanx! for the post.

Works nicely on my T30 Thinkpad, thanks a lot !!!

hey that worked for my thinkpad! thanks!

Hi,
I installed PowerManagement.bundle but still does not work.
I doesn't even hava a /var/log/PM.log it doesn't exist.
See my specs on signature.
Attached find ioreg -w 0 -c AppleACPIBattery dump, and this is what i have in System Profiler:

System Power Settings:

AC Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Sleep On Power Button: Yes
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No
Battery Power:
System Sleep Timer (Minutes): 10
Disk Sleep Timer (Minutes): 180
Display Sleep Timer (Minutes): 2
Sleep On Power Button: No
Automatic Restart On Power Loss: No


Anyone can help? (HEEEEEELP)
Tx

I just stumbled across something interersting: I restored an old backup of mine (10.4.8 with different 8.8.1 kernels) to my USB partition, and suddenly the battery meter is working (indicating correctly), even showing that the power is getting less while the Laptop is running, no matter with which 8.8.1 kernel. With this older install I had the disadavantage that the mouse movements were kind of ragged or jerky. So, logged in as root, I renamed the folder Extensions to Extension_mouse_dragging, copied the Extensions folder from my main drive to my USB and repaired permissions etc. After booting, the battery meter is now displaying the usual 0% I have grown used to, but as expected the mouse dragging is gone.

So it must be a certain Extension (or several Extensions) that mess up our battery meters. Has anybody been able to figure out in the meantime which XT(s) that is (are)? Does anybody have any idea which XTs might be the culptit(s)?

Bugs.

[EDIT]: AppleCPUPowerManagement.kext is was present in the XTs folder with mouse dragging. After removing it the mouse dragging was gone, and the battery meter remains functioning So I will take this XTs folder as a basis from now on.

I still would like to know which kext(s) keep the battery meter from working ..

works for me, acer aspire 5562. Battery shows percentage charged, time left to full charge on icon. but i am still not seeing the details of the battery in system profiler.

Another point to note is that when i shut down the PC, removed the battery, the power source shows as batteries, and until i plug in the battery and remove it again, it will then show power adapter. =)

Hi!

Works fine on my Dell Latitude D510; but, the "DVD player" doesn't work. Only audio, no video.
How can I fix it?

Thx.

This works on my Acer Aspire 5570 ANWXCI, but my ethernet and wifi is not working