Description of problem: When freshly installed from a USB key, the Asus Acer 110 reports battery charge, but after receiving updates, the battery charge is no longer reported in the bottom-right corner of the KDE desktop. On further investigation, I found the update was a desktop kernel, so I added the netbook kernel manually, and had the computer boot from the netbook kernel and not the desktop kernel. This resolved the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 1 How reproducible: I haven't been the person that updated it always, but it is twice now that I notice that the missing battery percent-full was missing, and I just forced a manual update with the netbook kernel today, which fixed the battery-indicator problem again. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do an Update 2. now has desktop kernel 3. manually load netbook kernel and change default boot to point to netbook kernel instead. ...fixed. I'm guessing that the Acer netbook is classified as a desktop when doing updates, but it should be classified as a netbook to use the netbook kernel instead.
what is the output of rpm -qa | kernel ?
Source RPM: (none) => kernel
# rpm -qa | grep "kernel" kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.8-10.mga-1-1.mga1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.8-8.mga-1-1.mga1 kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.38.8-10.mga1 kernel-firmware-20110314-2.mga1 kernel-netbook-latest-2.6.38.8-10.mga1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.38.7-1.mga-1-1.mga1 kernel-firmware-extra-20110517-1.1.mga1.nonfree kernel-netbook-2.6.38.8-10.mga-1-1.mga1 The netbook kernel(s) were selected and loaded manually. I've also removed a couple of the older kernels.
I guess the grub script choice as default the desktop for the first entry. It's work better if you remove kernel-desktop586-latest ? (so you don't get the kernel desktop update)
I'll remove the desktop latest then. Would you suspect that there might be something in the scripts that chooses between netbook, laptop, desktop? Perhaps a list kept somewhere where it branches to.... for brand XYZ choose laptop, for brand ABC choose netbook, for brand EFG choose desktop. It would be odd if after you install a working kernel (from DVD or CDrom), that the next update unfortunately undoes what is otherwise a better setup. I have the same problem with another machine that also showed the battery level for the "installed" version but lost the battery level indicator on a later update. Should I file a separate bug? ...likewise, I see a couple of bugs where some laptops are using desktop kernels too. It may possibly be similar problems...here's a desktop/laptop: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563
CC: (none) => djmarian4uSummary: Acer Netbook loads desktop kernel instead of netbook kernel, no battery reported => acer Netbook loads desktop kernel instead of netbook kernel, no battery reported
It appears problem got resolved on a recent update. Bug 5344 may give some additional/possible clues. Fixed. Thanks!
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED