ACPI on hp nx6125 doesn't update battery state

Carsten Tschense
2005-11-21T13:21:52Z

Hi,
I now discovered that the battery state doesn't update after the
temperature reaches the first trip point. I'm not totaly sure, but I
think it's right...

Hope you can help me,
Carsten

-- My first mail:

>Carsten Tschense
>Sent: 2005年11月19日 6:22
>To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
>Subject: [ACPI] ACPI on hp nx6125 doesn't update battery state
>
>Hi,
>I bought a HP Compaq nx6125 2 days ago...
>After booting the information in /proc/acpi/battery/C175/state update
>regulary, but after a while they don't. I don't see any errors in
>dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/acpid.
>Well, now the strange solution:
>cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ1/temperature
>That's the thermal zone of the cpu. After doing this, the fan starts
>blowing for a while, the cpu usage increases to 100% for about
>2 seconds
>(may vary), the systems repeats very slow.
>Now the battery state updates, the system runs as normal. If you do a
>cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ1/temperature now, nothing happens, after
>circa 5 minutes the same happens again.
>The temperature looks correct all the time. viewing the temperature of
>another thermal zone doesn't help...
>
>That's a bit strange, isn't it? ;)
>I hope you can help me... :) should I provide some debugging
>information?
>
>I'm running a 2.6.14 with gentoos patchset r2.
>
>Bye,
>Carsten