From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John-otv8KCb+Bkdaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org Subject: Re: "bypass" ? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:34:45 +0000 (GMT) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: References: <3E3018DA.7000505@gkec.tu-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3E3018DA.7000505-8NdywcgfOMlWMvVl7B+zuCEWGD4kr0XT@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: behnel_ml-8NdywcgfOMlWMvVl7B+zuCEWGD4kr0XT@public.gmane.org Cc: John-otv8KCb+Bkdaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org, acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 23 Jan, Stefan Behnel wrote: .. >> I have a Toshiba 3000-400 laptop, which previously needed a ACPI table >> bypass for it to detect the battery power levels, which I have been >> doing up to 2.4.17.. > > What do you mean, a "bypass"? With the standard kernels (upto around 2.4.18) the batteries would show up under ACPI but no power level details were indicated. I followed the instructions on an Intel web site (forgot the link) which outlined the process of dumping the DSDT, dissasembling it, correcting the mistakes in the schema, reassembling the schema as a hex dump which is then included into /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c. This may not be the ideal solution, but it did work (sort of) and the modified ACPI did display battery power levels etc. None of this was required with 2.4.20 and 20030109 patches. John -- John Heaton, G1YYH Manchester Computing, Kilburn Building. The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, England, M13-9PL pstn://+44-161-275-6011/Hello/Is.Dat-U? fax://+44-161-275-6040/screech/warble/ssshhh/beepbeep ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com