I finally got to upgrading from 7.2 to 7.5 using the antiX-upgrader.sh script.

After the update, Conky was displaying"no ac_adapters, 0 %".

I tried modifying .conkyrc, but no changes I made helped, and many didn't show anything.

After all that, I decided to go looking around in /proc/acpi

I am not sure, but I think the virtual files that report battery status are missing.

Here are listings from ls and from cat:

# ls -lR acpi
acpi:
total 0
-r-------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 dsdt
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 embedded_controller
-r-------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-07 05:05 event
-r-------- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 fadt
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 info
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 power_resource
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 sleep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 wakeup

acpi/embedded_controller:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 EC

acpi/embedded_controller/EC:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 info

acpi/power_resource:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 PSER
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 PSIO

acpi/power_resource/PSER:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 state

acpi/power_resource/PSIO:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-12-08 04:02 state

# cat acpi/power_resource/PSER/state
state: off
system level: S0
order: 0
reference count: 0
# cat acpi/power_resource/PSIO/state
state: on
system level: S0
order: 0
reference count: 0

Post your conkyrc, there may be other options.

This is the"out of the box" .conkyrc, except I tried using the optional parameter to specify which battery. I tried BAT0, BAT1, BAT2 through BAT9. Al yielded the same result.

I am running on an IBM ThinkPad A21m with PIII 750 MHz and 256 MB RAM.

# set to yes if you want Conky to be forked in the background
background yes

cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2

out_to_console no

# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
font 8x12
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1

# Use Xft?
use_xft no

# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Kristen ITC-7

own_window_transparent yes
own_window_colour hotpink

# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8

#on_bottom no

# mail spool
mail_spool $MAIL

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 1

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window no

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes

# Minimum size of text area
minimum_size 5 5
maximum_width 200

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no

# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no

# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 0

# border margins
border_margin 10

# border width
border_width 2

# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white

# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
alignment top_left
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text

gap_x 10
gap_y 10

# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer yes

# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes

# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no

# boinc (seti) dir
# seti_dir /opt/seti

# Possible variables to be used:
#
# Variable Arguments Description
# acpiacadapter ACPI ac adapter state.
# acpifan ACPI fan state
# acpitemp ACPI temperature.
# adt746xcpu CPU temperature from therm_adt746x
# adt746xfan Fan speed from therm_adt746x
# battery (num) Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM
# battery. ACPI battery number can be
# given as argument (default is BAT0).
# buffers Amount of memory buffered
# cached Amount of memory cached
# color (color) Change drawing color to color
# cpu CPU usage in percents
# cpubar (height) Bar that shows CPU usage, height is
# bar's height in pixels
# downspeed net Download speed in kilobytes
# downspeedf net Download speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# exec shell command Executes a shell command and displays
# the output in torsmo. warning: this
# takes a lot more resources than other
# variables. I'd recommend coding wanted
# behaviour in C and posting a patch __{{emoticon}}__ .
# execi interval, shell Same as exec but with specific interval.
# command Interval can't be less than
# update_interval in configuration.
# fs_bar (height), (fs) Bar that shows how much space is used on
# a file system. height is the height in
# pixels. fs is any file on that file
# system.
# fs_free (fs) Free space on a file system available
# for users.
# fs_free_perc (fs) Free percentage of space on a file
# system available for users.
# fs_size (fs) File system size
# fs_used (fs) File system used space
# hr (height) Horizontal line, height is the height in
# pixels
# i2c (dev), type, n I2C sensor from sysfs (Linux 2.6). dev
# may be omitted if you have only one I2C
# device. type is either in (or vol)
# meaning voltage, fan meaning fan or temp
# meaning temperature. n is number of the
# sensor. See /sys/bus/i2c/devices/ on
# your local computer.
# kernel Kernel version
# loadavg (1), (2), (3) System load average, 1 is for past 1
# minute, 2 for past 5 minutes and 3 for
# past 15 minutes.
# machine Machine, i686 for example
# mails Mail count in mail spool. You can use
# program like fetchmail to get mails from
# some server using your favourite
# protocol. See also new_mails.
# mem Amount of memory in use
# membar (height) Bar that shows amount of memory in use
# memmax Total amount of memory
# memperc Percentage of memory in use
# new_mails Unread mail count in mail spool.
# nodename Hostname
# outlinecolor (color) Change outline color
# pre_exec shell command Executes a shell command one time before
# torsmo displays anything and puts output
# as text.
# processes Total processes (sleeping and running)
# running_processes Running processes (not sleeping),
# requires Linux 2.6
# shadecolor (color) Change shading color
# stippled_hr (space), Stippled (dashed) horizontal line
# (height)
# swapbar (height) Bar that shows amount of swap in use
# swap Amount of swap in use
# swapmax Total amount of swap
# swapperc Percentage of swap in use
# sysname System name, Linux for example
# time (format) Local time, see man strftime to get more
# information about format
# totaldown net Total download, overflows at 4 GB on
# Linux with 32-bit arch and there doesn't
# seem to be a way to know how many times
# it has already done that before torsmo
# has started.
# totalup net Total upload, this one too, may overflow
# updates Number of updates (for debugging)
# upspeed net Upload speed in kilobytes
# upspeedf net Upload speed in kilobytes with one
# decimal
# uptime Uptime
# uptime_short Uptime in a shorter format
#
# seti_prog Seti@home current progress
# seti_progbar (height) Seti@home current progress bar
# seti_credit Seti@hoome total user credit


# variable is given either in format $variable or in ${variable}. Latter
# allows characters right after the variable and must be used in network
# stuff because of an argument
#${font Dungeon:style=Bold:pixelsize=10}I can change the font as well
#${font Verdana:size=10}as many times as I choose
#${font Perry:size=10}Including UTF-8,
#${font Luxi Mono:size=10}justo como este texto que o google traduz fÃ\u0192ªz o portuguÃ\u0192ªs
# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color white}$sysname $kernel
${color green}Uptime: $uptime
${color red}${time %a %d %b %k:%M}

${color white}Monitors:
${color green}cpu: ${color green}${cpu}%
${color red}ram : ${color white}$mem${color white}/${color white}$memmax ${color white}- ${color green}$memperc%
${color red}swap: ${color white}$swap${color white}/${color white}$swapmax ${color white}- ${color green}$swapperc%
${color red}processes: ${color white}$processes ${color white}running: ${color white}$running_processes
${color green}battery: ${color white}${acpiacadapter BAT0}, ${battery_percent BAT0}% ${battery_time BAT0}

${color white}Space:
${color green}Root:${color white} ${fs_free /} ${color green}= ${fs_free_perc /}%
${color green}Home:${color white} ${fs_free /home} ${color green}= ${fs_free_perc /home}%

I was using something similar in the past. when the kernel changed something went wrong. Here is what I did and it works for me: Modify to your needs.

Hi,

I pasted in your conkyrc entry. It stills shows 0% (and a hollow bar).

Since /proc/acpi seems to be missing the battery status reporting 'files' , I am guessing that somehow antiX 7.5 is not detecting my laptop as a laptop.

I will try to find 'cheat codes' to use while booting

I tried adding acpi=force to the boot parameters. No change. I also tried acpi=on and just acpi. Neither of those worked. I checked my installed package and noted that laptop-detect is installed.

Anyone have any other ideas?