grlm Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I have Acer TravelMate 4000 notebook. (pm1.5/1024/60Gb/Intel855). How can I see the battery level? Is it possible? Screenshot -- System Preferencies->Energy Saver->Options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechnoFreak Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 if you used platform=X86PC at startup, you won't be able to see the battery level. it seems that if you fix one thing, another thing breaks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grlm Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 if you used platform=X86PC at startup, you won't be able to see the battery level. it seems that if you fix one thing, another thing breaks... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, I'm not used X86PC. If I turn it on Processor performance listbox will be disabled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuri1312 Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Hello. Since Basically the core of OS X is BSD Based, I suppose the battery meter problem happens due to the same reason it happens on linux. I had this very same problem on my Aspire 1694 WLMi running gentoo, and the problem was due to a faulty DSDT on my laptop. The Solution....patch the kernel to support loading of external DSDT's over the initrd boot loader command and load a 3rd party compatible DSDT from acpi.sf.net voila it works! (under gentoo linux for x86) This apparently is a common problem with some ACPI compatible laptops on linux and usually the best solution is the above, so I believe the best approach would be to somehow integrate this into os x. I would also be very interested to have this functionality working under osx86 since it's really a pain not being able to know how much battery charge you have left I suppose by the time Apple releases Intel Based Laptops this bug will probably be fixed, but untill then if someone wants to comment on possible solutions or even start a project, I'd be happy to help. Yuri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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