wowlancer Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hi all. This is pretty much the first post I've ever made at any technically inclined website. I prefer to figure things out for myself, and have utilized the many postings here at insanelymac to go from iatkos v1 to retail leopard, and now to retail snow leopard. I've got snow leopard retail installed and running nicely. Had a few bumps in the road with audio, but got that working. Everything works just fine...except... My battery meter. It pretty much does what it wants to, but more often than not, it just displays ac power and 100% when I unplug it. Occasionally,(and especially after uninstalling or reinstalling either voodoobattery or appleacpibattery kexts), it will do what I want it to: Which is... dim the laptop screen and display remaining battery charge. I don't want to get too specific with my hardware unless I have to. More or less, I'm really just looking for a kind of "shove in the right direction". Is this power management, smbios, the battery kext itself? I just need to know how to narrow it down and fix it. Thanks to all in advance for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201895-solved-battery-meter-does-what-it-wants-to/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hi all. This is pretty much the first post I've ever made at any technically inclined website. I prefer to figure things out for myself, and have utilized the many postings here at insanelymac to go from iatkos v1 to retail leopard, and now to retail snow leopard. I've got snow leopard retail installed and running nicely. Had a few bumps in the road with audio, but got that working. Everything works just fine...except... My battery meter. It pretty much does what it wants to, but more often than not, it just displays ac power and 100% when I unplug it. Occasionally,(and especially after uninstalling or reinstalling either voodoobattery or appleacpibattery kexts), it will do what I want it to: Which is... dim the laptop screen and display remaining battery charge. I don't want to get too specific with my hardware unless I have to. More or less, I'm really just looking for a kind of "shove in the right direction". Is this power management, smbios, the battery kext itself? I just need to know how to narrow it down and fix it. Thanks to all in advance for your help! I really can´t imagine what the problem is about surrendering your hardware ??? Anyway: voodoobattery is written to ONLY work with vanilla ACPI kexts, maybe there could could be the fault? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201895-solved-battery-meter-does-what-it-wants-to/#findComment-1356799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowlancer Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Goron, Thanks for your reply. Not sure, the battery meter was working just fine under leopard. It's only been flaky since installing snow leopard! I've tried a healthy combination of fixes, and haven't found the right one yet. Thanks for the tip on vanilla acpi with voodoo. Embarrassed that I didn't really know that lol. I think I'll start fresh with a new install and add in modified appleacpi stuff and skip voodoo for now. Perhaps I can find a combo that will work for me. I'm pretty trial and error haha. If anyone else has more insight, please let me know. I'll keep working on it and maybe I can come up with something. This is bound to drive me nuts very quickly Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201895-solved-battery-meter-does-what-it-wants-to/#findComment-1357144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max.1974 Posted December 12, 2009 Share Posted December 12, 2009 Goron, Thanks for your reply. Not sure, the battery meter was working just fine under leopard. It's only been flaky since installing snow leopard! I've tried a healthy combination of fixes, and haven't found the right one yet. Thanks for the tip on vanilla acpi with voodoo. Embarrassed that I didn't really know that lol. I think I'll start fresh with a new install and add in modified appleacpi stuff and skip voodoo for now. Perhaps I can find a combo that will work for me. I'm pretty trial and error haha. If anyone else has more insight, please let me know. I'll keep working on it and maybe I can come up with something. This is bound to drive me nuts very quickly Hi my friend...im using Snow 10.6.0, and im get sucessfull install of batery metter kext from iDeneb. Just use Kext Helper put this kext and reboot...enjoy!!! ** Dont forget to look on System Preferences and click "Show menu..."(sorry my english) And delete other kexts voodoo or other versions that battery meter, because im think maybe you can have a conflit... Here the kext working on my Snow: AppleACPIBatteryManager.kext.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201895-solved-battery-meter-does-what-it-wants-to/#findComment-1357320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowlancer Posted December 13, 2009 Author Share Posted December 13, 2009 Thank you to both of you! I hadn't realized that I always batch installed all the voodoo kexts every time I reinstalled SL and that once voodoo battery was installed, I would have to remove it and start fresh with the kext max1974 mentioned. So... thanks to both of you. battery meter still isn't perfect because it doesn't dim the screen, but percentage changes to battery power instead of ac and that is good enough for me! I think the dimming is part of other power management stuff. I'm not too worried about it. Thanks again for the replies guys. This completes my snow hackintosh! 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/201895-solved-battery-meter-does-what-it-wants-to/#findComment-1357734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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