[ltp] What and where is "smapi"?

Frédéric BOITEUX linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:13:00 +0200


Le mar 30 sep 2008 16:06:35 CEST, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@eircom.net>
a écrit :

> Thanks very much.
> 
> I followed the instructions there with my T43,
> installing kernel-devel and kernel-headers
> and downloading (and de-tarring in /usr/local) tp_smapi-0.39.tgz .
> Then I ran "make install" and re-booted.
you could miss the reboot I think... but it isn't harmful.

> I ran "modprobe tp_smapi" to get the module loaded,
> but I didn't see the files with battery details 
> mentioned in an earlier posting.

Is the module really loaded ? Try :
lsmod |grep smapi

and try :
dmesg | tail
to see possible module loading failure messages...

	Fred.