Re: ACPI on hp nx6125 doesn't update battery state

Carsten Tschense
2005-11-20T10:13:36Z

Yes! ;) Read the mail from Luming Yu, I forgot to include it...

Am Sonntag, den 20.11.2005, 08:58 +0200 schrieb Ville Syrjälä:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:52:18AM +0100, Carsten Tschense wrote:
> > Hi,
> > thanks for your help! :)
> > I booted with that this morning and let the notebook running for about 5
> > hours without looking after it. ... It seems to be a bit dangerous as
> > the notebook was damn hot, the fan wasn't running. A "cat temperature"
> > helped again. It said 58° for 2 minutes, that was defenatly wrong...
>
> Have you tried using the ec_burst=1 kernel option? I have a few HP
> Omnibook 5x0/6x00 series laptops that require it to work correctly.
> Without ec_burst=1 battery, thermal, brightness keys etc. are all
> broken.
>
> PS.
> Big thanks to the ACPI people. The early ec_burst patches didn't work
> correctly with these laptops but now I'm running 2.6.14-mm1 and
> everything appears to work perfectly.