Greetings,
I’m running 12.3 KDE on a week old HP 4540s.
At first, battery stats were displayed correctly, but now I have to reboot for them to show how much battery there is or if it’s charging or not. For example, removing the charger does nothing, it still displays as “charging”. Power management options don’t work because of that and I’ve had some occasions when the laptop simply shut down when battery went to 0%.
What should I do to reset battery stats?
Since the laptop is brand new, I don’t think it’s a hardware problem (battery life is good).
So my normal suggestion is try a newer kernel version. Since the laptop is old, a newer kernel may not help. The question is it a KDE problem or kernel regression of some sort? Is it a possible problem with your user configuration? I would first create a new user and log in as them and see if the battery works. If not then you can try a newer kernel and/or go for openSUSE 13.1 which comes out in just a couple of weeks. For a new kernel look here: openSUSE and Installing New Linux Kernel Versions - Blogs - openSUSE Forums
Thank You,
The laptop is not old, I got it a week ago brand new. I don’t think it’s kernel related because it had suse 11 and an ancient kernel installed, and everything worked fine. But I do think it’s a system thing, not KDE. User configuration issues - I’ve reverted back to default power settings and the problem persists.
Sorry to misread your post. I suggest a new kernel is the thing to try. My bash script SACK makes it easy to do and it keeps your old kernel intack. My bash script SAKR allows the automatic removal of any kernel installed by SAKC and a the kernel is where most hardware drivers exist.
Thank You,
Thank you, can you give me a link to your script?
Other than that, is the kernel repository a good idea?
The following blog has links to all my kernel related bash scripts:
openSUSE and Installing New Linux Kernel Versions - Blogs - openSUSE Forums
Thank You,
It seems to be working now with the latest stable kernel. I’ll be posting if the problem appears again.
Thank you!
Ah so. Great news to hear a newer kernel was the required fix for you.
Thank You,