From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ciro Mattia Gonano Subject: ACPI Battery status on Acer TravelMate a-550XV Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:54:05 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021113105405.GA1994@amaranthum.com> Reply-To: lestat-oqfuaKpTAUt/+UGKtYOvpA@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all. I'm quite a newbie in kernel hacking, and the same (and maybe more ;) ) in = acpi hacking. So, that's my problem: with vanilla kernel acpi support I was not able to s= ee my laptop's battery status, and for acpi AC Adapter was online all the time (it showed me on-line also if really the cable was not on). So, I tried to apply acpi-20021101-2.4.20-rc1.diff.gz to a 2.4.20-rc1 kerne= l, and something seemed to have changed... The AC Adapter status works fine (it reflects the real status on/off-line o= f the cable), the power button also works fine, but the battery still doesn't wor= k :( I use "acpi" cmd to view the status, and, while the first time I run it, it always outputs me: lilith:~# acpi -V Battery 1: charging, 98%, charging at zero rate - will never fully cha= rge. Thermal 1: ok, 37.0 degrees C AC Adapter 1: on-line starting from the second time, it outputs me the real status, something like this: lilith:~# acpi -V Thermal 1: ok, 50.0 degrees C AC Adapter 1: off-line =2E.and the battery couldn't be viewed anymore. I tried to unplug the battery, and then replug in (while the laptop was on = AC, obviously), and I received some error messages: ACPI-0251: *** Error: Looking up [STAT] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS =2E.and obviously the battery still doesn't exists, for acpi. I tried to look in the drivers/acpi/ dir, and to work around the error, but= I couldn't be able to do much... :( Some hints? My laptop's an Acer TravelMate a-550XV, some OLD informations about what I = done on it can be found on http://www.CS.UniBO.It/~gonano/a-550XV.htm , and at t= he moment I run on it Debian unstable, with acpid-1.0.1 and acpi 0.06. Thanks in advance... Adieu, --=20 Lestat de Lioncourt -- a.k.a -- Ciro Mattia Gonano Undergraduate student in Computer Science at University of Bologna IHGGer #1049 <=3D> ICQ#: 52631406 <=3D> URL: http://www.CS.UniBO.It= /~gonano Debian admin at Students.CS.UniBO.It <=3D> look at headers for my JabberID= & GPG --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE90i9NcioIad74aSURAosRAJ9hhO31wOxO+1UYFnMinEINPJpngQCfSjdx sricL/Fy/LTqfJT/Eo7K45A= =Q31T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT-- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Are you worried about your web server security? Click here for a FREE Thawte Apache SSL Guide and answer your Apache SSL security needs: http://www.gothawte.com/rd523.html