Re: /proc/battery empty on Gateway 400VTX

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:04:11PM -0500, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 
> Looking for help with getting ACPI battery monitoring to work on this
> laptop. I'm running SourceMage GNU/Linux with:
> 
> 	vanilla linux 2.4.22
> 	acpi 20030916 patch for 2.4.22
> 	dsdt-initrd patch v0.3 for 2.4.22
> 
> All other acpi functions seem to work (haven't tried suspending). Nothing
> is reported when the battery module loads (it is being loaded between the
> ac_adapter and button modules) and the /proc/battery directory exists but
> is empty.
> 
> I tried dumping and fixing the dsdt. There was only 1 warning:
> 
>    dsdt.asl   281: Method(_WAK, 1) {
>    Warning  2026 -           ^ Reserved method must return a value (_WAK)
> 
> I fixed this according to Richard Black's HOWTO and loaded it via the
> initrd method using the dsdt-initrd patch listed above, though it seemed
> to have no effect on the system.
> 

Are you sure you have compiled embedded controller *not* as a module?

-- 
Ducrot Bruno

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--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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