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PowerManagement (with ACPI Support) Software Release


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Installed the bundle referenced in keithpk's first post and it seems to work fine on my Thinkpad T60p 2623-DDU. The menubar icon correctly switches from battery to AC, and both the percentage and estimated time are displayed while on battery. The calculation for "time until full" while charging does not seem to work. Actually, I'm not sure if the battery level is updated while on AC at all (which would explain why it can never calculate the time-to-charge).

 

However, it works well while on battery power, which is the important thing.

 

Darwin t60p 8.8.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.1: Sat Dec 9 22:18:27 AZOT 2006; semthex:/nebukadnezar/BUILD/obj/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

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Have downloaded and installed it, nothing happening with my Acer Aspire 5630.

 

System profiler shows the battery, but the information is patchy, example being the amperage is shown as zero and the AC Charger information is shown as zero watts, and always connected and charging.

 

Any suggestions guys?

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Works for me on a Dell Inspiron 8600 (PM 1,6ghz with Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro).

Battery icon is showing well.

 

Problem is that the sleep function hangs.

Whenever i close my LCD or choose the sleep function of mac, my system freezes.

I just can't get out of it.

 

Somebody had any solution for it ?

 

Thanks in advance :rolleyes:

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Works for me on a Dell Inspiron 8600 (PM 1,6ghz with Radeon Mobility 9600 Pro).

Battery icon is showing well.

 

Problem is that the sleep function hangs.

Whenever i close my LCD or choose the sleep function of mac, my system freezes.

I just can't get out of it.

 

Somebody had any solution for it ?

 

Thanks in advance ;)

 

For me this has never worked with or without power management. I just avoid using sleep mode. Also had to turn all energy saving features off because otherwise my Mac freezes after being idle for some period of time.

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Works great on my inspiron 8500 sse2 10.4.9 8.9.1 kernel BUT: When i boot my laptop on battery, the processor is recognized as 1ghz slower than it should be, and the computer runs slow. But the worst thing is that the computer's sense of time is messed up. The clock in the corner runs about 5 times the speed it should, and animations are out of control. Bouncing dock applicaitons look like jackhammers! Again, this is only when running on battery.

 

If anyone has any ideas, that would be great. The slowness of the computer is ok, but the sped-up graphics are unbareable.

 

Thanks

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It does NOT WORK on my Acer TM 3002

 

It still says calculating BUT

if I remove the battery it tells me "No Batteries available"

 

that tells me that it sees the battery but cannot read capacity or calculate time.

How can i fix this? Any ideas? It must be only a short hack away from success.

 

Please write back :thumbsup_anim:

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sorry for pushing but this is the only thing that does not work on my hackintosh at the moment.

 

A friend told me that there are other bundles and kexts available for getting a battery status - where can i find them?

How can i "grep" battery information in command line? sysctl?

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I have some problems on my acer 5683.

 

First, It doesn't calculate the charging time correctly (the battery is still charging but the icon says "battery full".

 

Second, When i unplug the battery, it still thinks there is a battery connected although it says "no batteries available". This doesn't allow energy saver to switch to "power adapter" settings.

 

I wish i could help the programming of a good working version, but i am just a meteorologist.

 

what happens if you unplug the battery? Does the "power" icon apear?

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I found another problem. It doesn't work with the AppleACPIPlatform.kext from version 10.4.10. I think somebody should make a tutorial to teach us what changes did to the code so we can try build our own version of PowerManagement.bundle.

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If I had to guess, I would guess that your CPU lowers it's speed when it gets unplugged to preserve battery life. So when that happens it you're getting less processing power for everything, thus the slow motion that occurs.

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I found another problem. It doesn't work with the AppleACPIPlatform.kext from version 10.4.10. I think somebody should make a tutorial to teach us what changes did to the code so we can try build our own version of PowerManagement.bundle.

 

Did reverting to the previous installed version of the AppleACPIPlatform.kext file correct this for you? I just installed the update (release version by pascalw) and that was when it stopped working so it had to be one of kexts. I will try and revert to the one from 10.4.9 and see if it does anything for me.

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Well I just tried it.

 

DO NOT DO THIS!

 

Restoring the AppleACPIPlatform.kext file from 10.4.9 resulted in a kernel panic from Mac OS. This also messed up my install since my restore image failed. I will start over taking a different approach this time (go straight to 10.4.10) and see how much works right away and how much is broken then work from there. :(

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Hi, Any progress for this driver? I have too that problem of Battery 0% and never ending calculating remain time.

 

Acer Travelmate 4101LMi

CPU: cetrino M730 1,6 mhz

Video: 915GM/GML, 910GMA Works with clip trick

Audio: Works, but not reconeized

Wifi: Prowirless 2200Bg, Works with Network selector

Ram 512 DDR 2100

Power Magnagemant: partially works, since I put the PowerManagment kext OSX reconize my system as a laptop, since then sleep and power saving functions works.

 

Sorry for the poor english,

 

Hawaharlal

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