Re: first shoot for smartbattery (was Re: Re: i2c-acpi-ec.c)

[Pedro Venda <pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org>]

Mathias Weyland wrote:

>>You can find this at http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/smartbatt/
>>Take one of the smartbatt.tar.{gz,bz2} and follow the README after
>>unpacking it, and hopefully a ./smartbatt will give you correct battery
>>informations (who knows).
> 
> 
> Ok, here's what's happening:
> 
> corcovado:/usr/src/smartbatt# ./smartbattery
> Error: No i2c-bus specified!
> Syntax: smartbatt I2CBUS
>   Installed I2C busses:
>     i2c-1       unknown         ACPI EC SMBus adapter at 0018
> Algorithm unavailable
>     i2c-0       unknown         SMBus I801 adapter at 1880
> Algorithm unavailable
> corcovado:/usr/src/smartbatt# ./smartbattery  1
> current:       65535 mA
> remain:        65535 mA or mWh
> time to empty: 65535 minutes
> time to full:  65535 minutes
> temperature:   6280.5 C
> voltage:       65535 mV

same here.

> 
> The values are wrong, but I guess you helped me a lot. I'll dive into the
> code this afternoon and I'll try to nail down the problem. As for now, what
> I can tell you is that the base address has been detected correctly. From my
> dsdt.asl:
> 
>                     Device (SMBC)
>                     {
>                         Name (_HID, "ACPI0001")
>                         Name (_EC, 0x1820)
>                         Device (SBS0)
>                         {
>                             Name (_HID, "ACPI0002")
>                             Name (_SBS, 0x01)
>                         }
>                     }
> 
> 
> Loading the module shows:
> 
> i2c_acpi_ec: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
> base: 0x18    alert: 0x20
> i2c-acpi-ec.c: ACPI EC SMBus adapter at 0x18

same here.

> 
> So at least that is working.
> 
> But something puzzeled me a bit:
> 
> corcovado:/home/lea# i2cdetect 1
> WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, cause data loss and worse!
> I will probe file /dev/i2c-1.
> I will probe address range 0x03-0x77.
> Continue? [Y/n]
>      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
> 00:          XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 10: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 20: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 30: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 40: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 50: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 60: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 70: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
> 
> At least the output differs from what Pedro (IIRC) got in October.

same here. now I get the same as you.

> 
> Regards & thank you very much for the effort!

indeed! thanks for the very helpful work with the driver.


regards,
pedro venda.
-- 

Pedro João Lopes Venda
email: pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org
http://arrakis.dhis.org


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