jakebpg
24th March 2012, 01:23 PM
I have this problem which I reported to kde and am considering filing a bug report for fedora also since I don't know which package is causing the problem.
First my hardware is a Toshiba L655 S5156 laptop with a replaceable video card for future upgrades!
ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 5650 with 1GB DDR3 discrete graphics
memory, plus up to 1661MB dynamically allocated shared graphics
memory.
Now for the problem, power management does not give any options for running on battery! This is a huge problem since it just shuts off the system when the battery dies and all data is lost that I have been working on all without any warnings about the battery being low.
I believe that it doesn't give the usual battery options for this laptop because of the up-gradable video card and it thinks that it is a desktop and not a laptop.
Is there a flag that I can set to turn this feature on?
Is it possible that something didn't get installed because it thinks this machine is a desktop?
At a total loss as to how to fix this.
Also
My old Toshiba A75 S2112 which also is running F17 alpha has no problem with power management but that machine does NOT have an up-gradable video card in it. I checked for installed packages and they are both almost identical except for one being a 686 and the other being a x86_64.
Any help that anyone can render would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance.
First my hardware is a Toshiba L655 S5156 laptop with a replaceable video card for future upgrades!
ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 5650 with 1GB DDR3 discrete graphics
memory, plus up to 1661MB dynamically allocated shared graphics
memory.
Now for the problem, power management does not give any options for running on battery! This is a huge problem since it just shuts off the system when the battery dies and all data is lost that I have been working on all without any warnings about the battery being low.
I believe that it doesn't give the usual battery options for this laptop because of the up-gradable video card and it thinks that it is a desktop and not a laptop.
Is there a flag that I can set to turn this feature on?
Is it possible that something didn't get installed because it thinks this machine is a desktop?
At a total loss as to how to fix this.
Also
My old Toshiba A75 S2112 which also is running F17 alpha has no problem with power management but that machine does NOT have an up-gradable video card in it. I checked for installed packages and they are both almost identical except for one being a 686 and the other being a x86_64.
Any help that anyone can render would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanks in advance.
