robodex Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have an old(ish) Acer Travelmate 250. It works fine with QE (1024x768) and most other stuff. I had installed 10.4.1 previously but it was giving me problems so I moved to 10.4.4. 10.4.4 works great except for the fact that the battery meter, which worked in 10.4.1, no longer works. I realize that this is probably due to apple removing non-mac drivers, however is there a way to get the battery meter back? A little bit of info: Acer Travelmate 250 P4 2.6ghz 256mb ram Intel Extreme graphics Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have an old(ish) Acer Travelmate 250. It works fine with QE (1024x768) and most other stuff. I had installed 10.4.1 previously but it was giving me problems so I moved to 10.4.4. 10.4.4 works great except for the fact that the battery meter, which worked in 10.4.1, no longer works. I realize that this is probably due to apple removing non-mac drivers, however is there a way to get the battery meter back? afaik no, because as you said, there are some drivers missing. If I remember right, maxxuss said that the ACPI is totally EFI related, and thats maybe the reason why this won't work with 10.4.4.+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-68859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark7714 Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 A lot of people have had luck with this. Not me though... Hope it works for you though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-68889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Found the darwin source for the x86 powermanagement including the batterydrivers. maybe if s.o. could compile them with xcode... http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.4.x86/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-68970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robodex Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 A lot of people have had luck with this. Not me though... Hope it works for you though. Hmm. I think that *may* have fixed it, sort of. I'll have to see, it's saying I have 65% battery left but it hasn't changed. I'm gonna leave it for awhile I guess and see if it changes at all. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-69184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark7714 Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Hmm. I think that *may* have fixed it, sort of. I'll have to see, it's saying I have 65% battery left but it hasn't changed. I'm gonna leave it for awhile I guess and see if it changes at all. Sounds like it didn't work for you. That is the problem a lot of people are having (but not everyone), including me. It seems like it updates at boot, and stalls after that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-69221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robodex Posted March 5, 2006 Author Share Posted March 5, 2006 Well, someone linked to a program called X-Charge in that topic and now it works fine. Not in my menubar, but meh Now to get wireless working... Oy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10985-battery-meter-worked-in-1041-wont-work-in-1044/#findComment-69224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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