8.04 + G3 clamshell battery

[ReaRea]

Got mor memory for my clamshell (now at 576) so I upgraded from 6.06 LTS to 8.04.1 LTS. Works great cept the battery thing.
Ubuntu sometimes after restarting shows either:
1) running from AC only (plug icon)
2) battery at 100%, battery state cant be determined, running from AC (shows full green battery icon with plug on side) or
3) running from AC, battery state cannt be determined (empty battry).
Went from home to school and the clock didnt reset so I'm guessing it's taking something from the battery? Tried reseting PMU, taking battery out and trying to reset, etc etc. Got a new adaptor so I know that's not it, got a new battery. Could it be a problem with Ubuntu or is it the clamshell? Guess it's the DC board but is there anything I can do to check that before taking the whole thing appart?

G3 ibook clamshell se (firewire)
466MHz
10GB HD

[ReaRea]

tried
http://reviews.ebay.com/iBook-Clamshell-Battery-Issue_W0QQugidZ10000000007193925?ssPageName=BUYGD: CAT:-1:SEARCH:5

now reads (with empty battery icon)
Device Info
product: Battery Bay
Percentage charge: 0%
Technology: unknown
Current charge: 0.0 Wh
Design charge: 3.4 Wh

still says running from AC
battery state cant be read
and battery charge time unknown

any ideas?

[stream303]

I vaguely remember something in the old read-only PPC archives about this - the clamshell's don't have an internal lithium on-board battery right? I could be wrong..

Although it is supposed to be fixed, does the date seem correct when you run date in a terminal? Here it is just in case:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuDateBug

Although since the system seems to be running ok except for the battery thing, this probably isn't a problem...

[cyberdork33]

I vaguely remember something in the old read-only PPC archives about this - the clamshell's don't have an internal lithium on-board battery right? I could be wrong..

That seems correct as mine (with no main battery) will completely reset if I lose power to it.

[IQRules]

Got mor memory for my clamshell (now at 576) so I upgraded from 6.06 LTS to 8.04.1 LTS. Works great cept the battery thing.

G3 ibook clamshell se (firewire)
466MHz
10GB HD

I got G3 500Mhz iMac, have hard time to boot it after installation, ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-powerpc.iso, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04.1/release.

Can you post your Hard drive paritions and yaboot.conf and which iso you have here?
Thanks

[ReaRea]

I got G3 500Mhz iMac, have hard time to boot it after installation, ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-powerpc.iso, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04.1/release.

Can you post your Hard drive paritions and yaboot.conf and which iso you have here?
Thanks

installed 8.04.1 ppc (not the alt)
yaboot.conf

## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer
##
## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!!
## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations.
##
## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:
## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ

boot=/dev/hda2
device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
partition=3
root=/dev/hda3
timeout=50
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot

image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet splash"

image=/boot/vmlinux.old
label=old
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
append="quiet splash"



*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: FUJITSU MHM2100AT
vendor: Fujitsu
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
version: 3A22
serial: 01008529
size: 9590MiB (10GB)
capacity: 9590MiB (10GB)
capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm apm partitioned partitioned:mac
configuration: apm=off smart=on
*-volume:0
description: Apple partition map
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@0.0,1
logical name: /dev/hda1
capacity: 31KiB
*-volume:1
description: Apple Bootstrap
physical id: 2
bus info: ide@0.0,2
logical name: /dev/hda2
size: 974KiB
capacity: 977KiB
capabilities: bootable hfs initialized
configuration: created=2008-11-12 00:22:09 filesystem=hfs label=bootstrap modified=2008-11-12 00:22:10 state=clean
*-volume:2
description: EXT3 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 3
bus info: ide@0.0,3
logical name: /dev/hda3
logical name: /
logical name: /dev/.static/dev
version: 1.0
serial: 176d5181-82c4-4a0e-b6c9-68af97dabee9
size: 9132MiB
capacity: 9132MiB
capabilities: journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2008-11-11 23:38:12 filesystem=ext3 modified=1903-12-31 18:03:59 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=1903-12-31 18:03:59 state=mounted
*-volume:3
description: Linux swap volume
physical id: 4
bus info: ide@0.0,4
logical name: /dev/hda4
version: 1
serial: 72681a91-7de6-4782-8b61-40034d8d724f
size: 456MiB
capacity: 456MiB
capabilities: swap initialized
configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096

[ReaRea]

I vaguely remember something in the old read-only PPC archives about this - the clamshell's don't have an internal lithium on-board battery right? I could be wrong..

Although it is supposed to be fixed, does the date seem correct when you run date in a terminal? Here it is just in case:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuDateBug

Although since the system seems to be running ok except for the battery thing, this probably isn't a problem...

If the computer is unplugged everything resets. However the other day I took it to school and when started up it wasnt reset, that's when it wqas showing the green battery icon saying the battery was at 100% but it was pulling power from the AC. According to http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25911?viewlocale=en_US the clamshell doesnt have PRAM