Re: presario 1505us battery not found

[Abheek Anand <abheek-VX+DGZyGJwM3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>]

Well it does the trick on my hardware. I am now able to check up on battery
status etc. Next step is trying to get suspend to work ;-)

Thanks a lot
Abheek

On (04/26/03 03:58), Kevin Schmidt wrote:
> I am running a 2.4.19 kernel and acpi20020918, on a compaq evo1000v.
> Many things may have improved since then. I finally gave up and patched
> the dsdt to always report the battery present. I was then able to get
> the battery charge status etc.; I changed:
> Return (local1)
> to
> Return (Or (local1,0x10))
> in my C10F method, to set the battery present bit. I don't know if this
> name is the same in other compaq dsdts.
> 
> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:49:43 -0400
> > From: Abheek Anand <abheek-VX+DGZyGJwM3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>
> > To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> > Organization: CS Department, University of Maryland
> > Subject: [ACPI] presario 1505us battery not found
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After quite a bit of tinkering with my presario 1505us, I managed to get most
> > of what I need up and working. Currently im using linux 2.5.67 with
> > acpi-20030328. I am able to get ac-adaptor information, and the LID works
> > fine. However, I am unable to get acpi to recognize my battery, which it
> > always shows as absent. I have looked at several people's suggestions on this
> > on the mailing list, but none of them work for me.
> > 
> > I'm including a copy of the dmesg messages my system spews out. I also did the
> > usual dsdt disassemble, fix, and include in kernel routine. I have put up my
> > original (and fixed) dsdt on http://www.cs.umd.edu/~abheek/acpi . My
> > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1 entries show the battery as absent.
> > 
> > Any help would be _very_ appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Abheek
> > 
> =-------------------------------------------------------------
> Kevin Schmidt, w9cf-iy676YoZKZKAgX/H7s3LlTe48wsgrGvP@public.gmane.org, http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf
> Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Abheek


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