Alemanni Gilberto wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with APM on my laptop. I have a TOSHIBA SATTELITE with
> a linux kernel 2.6.3 (from Mandrake 10.0) installed.
> I want to check the battery status with the apm utility. The apmd daemon
> seems running fine, but when I invoke apm, I get the following message
> "AC on-line, no system battery", even though no AC power supply is plugged.
>
> Can anyone tell me what happens ?

Since EVERY Toshiba Sattelite is different from EVERY Toshiba Sattelite,
knowing the EXACT model number is important (and I mean EXACT). Toshiba
is notorious for having a non-standard APM implementation as well as
a non-standard ACPI implementation... but it does vary greaty depending
on the model.

Without knowing the EXACT model.. it's hard to diagnose.

Chris Cox a écrit :
> Alemanni Gilberto wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>I have a problem with APM on my laptop. I have a TOSHIBA SATTELITE with
>>a linux kernel 2.6.3 (from Mandrake 10.0) installed.
>>I want to check the battery status with the apm utility. The apmd daemon
>>seems running fine, but when I invoke apm, I get the following message
>>"AC on-line, no system battery", even though no AC power supply is plugged.
>>
>>Can anyone tell me what happens ?
>
>
> Since EVERY Toshiba Sattelite is different from EVERY Toshiba Sattelite,
> knowing the EXACT model number is important (and I mean EXACT). Toshiba
> is notorious for having a non-standard APM implementation as well as
> a non-standard ACPI implementation... but it does vary greaty depending
> on the model.
>
> Without knowing the EXACT model.. it's hard to diagnose.

Thanks,

from the back of my Satellite, I got the following informations:

S1900-300
Model No: PS192E-00G1N-SL
Seral No: Y2843114G

Alemanni Gilberto wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a problem with APM on my laptop. I have a TOSHIBA SATTELITE with
> a linux kernel 2.6.3 (from Mandrake 10.0) installed.
> I want to check the battery status with the apm utility. The apmd daemon
> seems running fine, but when I invoke apm, I get the following message
> "AC on-line, no system battery", even though no AC power supply is
> plugged.
>
> Can anyone tell me what happens ?
>

My Toshiba (portege 4000) does not support APM at all; you need ACPI.

{pts/2}% cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: discharging
present rate: 13964 mW
remaining capacity: 22831 mWh
present voltage: 11340 mV

=arvi=