Shaska Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 So yeah, Title kinda explains it all, Once I was done updating using the KALYWAY packs from bit torrent (Vanilla Kernal on an Acer 4620z) now my battery display meter is gone, and re-installing the power management kexts dont seem to do anything to help... Is there a file Im missing that would be of help to display my remaining power levels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfas Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 yeah ive got the same problem on my dv9500t... i also tried replacing the files and it didn't work either... so does anybody have any idea? i also made a thread here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=87369 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfas Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 BUMP>>>> Please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaska Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Ok so far Ive tried every patch I could find on this complete forum and no luck, If anyone has any ideas, Please do share them! :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haven Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 same here. kalyway updated with the combopack. battery status gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorevf Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 10.5.2 upgrade replaces PowerManagement.bundle in /System/Library/SystemConfiguration If you replace the new one with the one you installed for the 10.5.1 it will work.. Regards, Jorevf Dell D620 2.0GHz 4GM ram 10.5.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfas Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 ok i just fixed it!!!!!! check the thread i linked to above for more information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaska Posted February 14, 2008 Author Share Posted February 14, 2008 So far I have replaced my powermanagement.bundle about 10 times and still no battery meter abilities... Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empra Great Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 So far I have replaced my powermanagement.bundle about 10 times and still no battery meter abilities... Any other ideas? If you back up your old extentions, just replace these with the old ones, but do that one a time do not do all so if something went wrong you can track it hope this helps. AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext AppleSMBIOS.kext AppleACPIPlatform.kext Empra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaska Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 Alright, the SMBIOS kext causes kernel panic, and it appears its the one required for the battery meter to work in 10.5.2 :S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumar 4U Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 For all you that dont know, in /System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras/ theres the folder to customize your toolbar regardign Battery Icon, Eject Button whatever... Hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaska Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 For all you that dont know, in /System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras/ theres the folder to customize your toolbar regardign Battery Icon, Eject Button whatever... Hope it helps Ill take a look there for customization later on, thanks for the tip... (although I know it won't help with the battery issue because energy saver doesn't even detect a battery at all either, thinks im on a desktop...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empra Great Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Ill take a look there for customization later on, thanks for the tip... (although I know it won't help with the battery issue because energy saver doesn't even detect a battery at all either, thinks im on a desktop...) I will later attached my extensions and the bundle, that may help. I am now working on my real MAC I need my hp Hack MAc to send those, you can PM me with an email if you want. Empra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyz Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 If you back up your old extentions, just replace these with the old ones, but do that one a time do not do all so if something went wrong you can track it hope this helps. AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext AppleSMBIOS.kext AppleACPIPlatform.kext Empra It doesn't matter what version of all those extensions you have, here's all you need to do to get things going again. First, make sure that there is a AppleACPIPowerSource.kext inside your /System/Libraries/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/PlugIns folder. If there isn't, copy the one from your 10.5.1 backup or grab one from the driver thread. Now open up /System/Libraries/Extensions/AppleACPIPlatform.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleACPIPowerSource.kext/Contents/Info.plist in a text editor and at the very bottom section (under OSBundleLibraries) you will see all of this kext's dependencies. The problem is that it has a dependency on the older version of AppleACPIPlatform. So to fix it, under the <key>com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform</key>, change the version number on the next line from 1.1.0 (or whatever yours says) to 1.2.1. So, for example my OSBundleLibraries section looks like this now: <key>OSBundleLibraries</key> <dict> <key>com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform</key> <string>1.2.1</string> <key>com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily</key> <string>1.0.0d1</string> <key>com.apple.kernel.mach</key> <string>1.1</string> </dict> Now just save, repair disk permissions if you replaced the AppleACPIPowerSource.kext, and reboot. I've attached my AppleACPIPowerSource.kext incase you can't find one or just don't want to make this change yourself. --abyz AppleACPIPowerSource.kext.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaska Posted February 16, 2008 Author Share Posted February 16, 2008 wow I must have the worst luck in the world, Manually edited that .plist file (mine was 1.0.1) and still no battery detected... Im going to go through and take a look through all my .kext files trying to hunt down the cause... Will post updates as I go along... Thanks for all the help so far everyone EDIT: On a side note, My system appears to be lacking bolth: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext If someone can post up a link or a DL for those two files I can try to install them and see if thats why my system is on the fritz... The odd thing is the battery meter worked fine in 10.5.1 once I put in any version of the powermanagement.bundle file but as of the update to 5.2, Thats where the trouble starts... Its really odd that with no changes to the system besides the update (which ironically claims there are no changes to kext files made) the meter disappears... EDIT 2: After installing a copy of AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext from the KALYWAY CD I now see the battery meter flash quickly on boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyz Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Here are the kexts and PowerManagement bundle that I am using. I'm not entirely sure where they are all from - I think the AppleSmartBatteryManager was the default one left after 10.5.2 install (not sure if it was new or left untouched from 10.5.1). The AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement was from 10.5.1 which I extracted from the iAtkos install DVD. The PowerManagement.bundle is the one from this thread (or the one linked to it, I forget). Anyhow, here they all are. I should mention that these are working on my machine which is Vanilla kernel + EFI. --abyz AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext.zip AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext.zip PowerManagement.bundle.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NW Putra Posted May 23, 2008 Share Posted May 23, 2008 Thanks... It worked. Replace the PowerManagement.bundle and check also AppleACPIPowerSource.kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daurora2008 Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I have Leopard 10.5.1 and there is no battery indicator. Would that same code work or not? I am not going to attempt it until I get a reply because I am not sure what the end result will be? I have been doing research on it and apparently it was supposed to work. I don't know what's up with this thing but I don't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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