RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Mark M.]

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I have the same problem with my Dell Inspiron 5150. Battery status AND 
temperature reading stopped working when I upgraded from 2.6.0-test11-mm 
to 2.6.0-mm1. I noticed it because klaptop stopped showing the battery 
charge status, and gkrellm2 stopped showing the battery and temperature 
status (stuck at 25C). Actually, the only thing that still works with 
the battery is wether the AC is plugged in or not. Here is my /proc and 
dmesg from 2.6.0-mm1. I can reboot and show you the working test11-mm 
stuff as well, if needed.

root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox # cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature:             25 C

root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/alarm
alarm:                   unsupported

root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present:                 yes
design capacity:         0 mWh
last full capacity:      0 mWh
battery technology:      non-rechargeable
design voltage:          0 mV
design capacity warning: 0 mWh
design capacity low:     0 mWh
capacity granularity 1:  0 mWh
capacity granularity 2:  0 mWh
model number:
serial number:
battery type:
OEM info:

root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          unknown
present rate:            0 mW
remaining capacity:      0 mWh
present voltage:         0 mV

All the 0 readings have actual numbers with test11-mm, as well as model 
number, serial number, ...

Thanks,
Mark


From: Brown, Len <len-lUQJ9CVx3tM@public.gmane.org>
RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 
2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500
2003-12-19 08:11

  dmesg from before and after would help, plus the info under 
/proc/acpi/battery.

  Thanks,
  -Len

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: acpi-devel-admin-I+uqrFQUvWk@public.gmane.org
  > [mailto:acpi-devel-admin-I+uqrFQUvWk@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
  > Pere Castañer
  > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:00 PM
  > To: acpi-devel
  > Subject: [ACPI] acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery
  > status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500
  >
  >
  > I've just aplyied last patch into 2.6.0 stable release and it
  > brokes the battery monitor from acpi in
  > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/status...because of this
  > gnome-battery applet don't shows any information.
  >
  > Do you need more information?
  >
  > PS:with acpi included on 2.6.0 all works fine.

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Linux version 2.6.0-mm1 (root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031201 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r4, propolice)) #3 Fri Dec 26 02:58:15 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffcf800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ffcf800 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec20000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131023
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 126927 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL                                      ) @ 0x000fdea0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d30b03 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0000
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d30b03 ASL  0x00000061) @ 0x1fff0400
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL    CPi R   0x27d30b03 ASL  0x00000047) @ 0x1fff0c00
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdc7
current: c0400a60
current->thread_info: c0482000
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 3057.353 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 514220k/524092k available (2642k kernel code, 9128k reserved, 948k data, 128k init, 0k highmem)
zapping low mappings.
Calibrating delay loop... 6045.69 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU:     After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU:     After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU#0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfcf1e, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031203
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe2d0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe2f4, dseg 0x40
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1000-0x105f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1060-0x107f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x1080-0x10bf has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x10c0-0x10ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
PnPBIOS: 12 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 12 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Machine check exception polling timer started.
devfs: v1.22 (20021013) Richard Gooch (rgooch-r1x6VkxMR+00zabcByZE4g@public.gmane.org)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir-pn4DOG8n3UYbFoVRYvo4fw@public.gmane.org).
NTFS driver 2.1.5 [Flags: R/O].
udf: registering filesystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855GM Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
b44.c:v0.92 (Nov 4, 2003)
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0d:56:33:d4:af
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: PHILIPS DVD+RW SDVD6004, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: FUJITSU MHT2040AT PL, ATA DISK drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p4 < p5 p6 p7 >
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 0
cdrom: : unknown mrw mode page
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[faffb800-faffbfff]  Max Packet=[2048]
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem e0835c00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-13
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0000bf40
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 11, io base 0000bf20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
 Firmware: 5.9
 Sensor: 37
 new absolute packet format
 Touchpad has extended capability bits
 -> multifinger detection
 -> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.7 (Thu Sep 25 19:16:36 2003 UTC).
request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- snd-card-0. error = -16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[314fc0001f5a3061]
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49443 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ALSA device list:
  #0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 at 0xf4fff800, irq 11
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
Reiserfs journal params: device hdc7, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
reiserfs: checking transaction log (hdc7) for (hdc7)
Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
Adding 506008k swap on /dev/hdc6.  Priority:-1 extents:1
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C)
i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature
i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
Dell laptop SMM driver v1.13 14/05/2002 Massimo Dal Zotto (dz-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org)
ndiswrapper version 0.3 loaded
NTFS volume version 3.1.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
b44: eth0: Link is down.
eth1: power management not possible
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
nvidia: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
nvidia: no version magic, tainting kernel.
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4496  Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
cisco_ipsec: no version magic, tainting kernel.
cisco_ipsec: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.1 (A) kernel module loaded
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
        -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes

Re: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Nate Lawson]

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Your dmesg shows that this is the same thing we found broken for Dells:
>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes

Here is the bug info.  Note that Luming's patch does NOT fix the problem
but just silences the warnings.  If you use the ASL patch I have attached
that adds RefOf/DerefOf (credit Mark Santcroos), the problems are fixed.
You can also revert dsmthdat.c back to what it was pre-0619 and that also
fixes the problem.

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1728

The issue is, ACPI-CA is still not getting its argument-passing right
after moving away from "always copy" semantics.

-Nate

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Mark M. wrote:
> I have the same problem with my Dell Inspiron 5150. Battery status AND
> temperature reading stopped working when I upgraded from 2.6.0-test11-mm
> to 2.6.0-mm1. I noticed it because klaptop stopped showing the battery
> charge status, and gkrellm2 stopped showing the battery and temperature
> status (stuck at 25C). Actually, the only thing that still works with
> the battery is wether the AC is plugged in or not. Here is my /proc and
> dmesg from 2.6.0-mm1. I can reboot and show you the working test11-mm
> stuff as well, if needed.
> ...
> root-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:                 yes
> capacity state:          ok
> charging state:          unknown
> present rate:            0 mW
> remaining capacity:      0 mWh
> present voltage:         0 mV
>
> All the 0 readings have actual numbers with test11-mm, as well as model
> number, serial number, ...
>
> From: Brown, Len <len-lUQJ9CVx3tM@public.gmane.org>
> RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with
> 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500
> 2003-12-19 08:11
>
>   dmesg from before and after would help, plus the info under
> /proc/acpi/battery.
>
>   Thanks,
>   -Len
>
>   > -----Original Message-----
>   > From: acpi-devel-admin-I+uqrFQUvWk@public.gmane.org
>   > [mailto:acpi-devel-admin-I+uqrFQUvWk@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
>   > Pere Castañer
>   > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:00 PM
>   > To: acpi-devel
>   > Subject: [ACPI] acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery
>   > status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500
>   >
>   >
>   > I've just aplyied last patch into 2.6.0 stable release and it
>   > brokes the battery monitor from acpi in
>   > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/status...because of this
>   > gnome-battery applet don't shows any information.
>   >
>   > Do you need more information?
>   >
>   > PS:with acpi included on 2.6.0 all works fine.
>


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RE: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Yu, Luming]

>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>      -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>
>Here is the bug info.  Note that Luming's patch does NOT fix the
problem
>but just silences the warnings.  If you use the ASL patch I have
attached
>that adds RefOf/DerefOf (credit Mark Santcroos), the problems are
fixed.
>You can also revert dsmthdat.c back to what it was pre-0619 and that
also
>fixes the problem.
>
>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1728
>
>The issue is, ACPI-CA is still not getting its argument-passing right
>after moving away from "always copy" semantics.

Please try patch filed at  http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766



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Re: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Mark M.]

Success! I used the patch below and things seem to be working again. 
Actually, I manually edited my (2.6.0-mm) 
/usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmthdat.c
because i don't think the paths in the patch would have worked. I just 
recompiled the kernel and rebooted.

As a side note, I didn't include the before last line of the patch 
"new_obj_desc;", because it wasn't in my version of the file.

Here is the proof:

maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ uname -a
Linux laptop 2.6.0-mm1 #4 Wed Dec 31 13:53:35 EST 2003 i686 Mobile 
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/temperature
temperature:             50 C

maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/
alarm  info   state
maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/alarm
alarm:                   626 mAh

maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present:                 yes
design capacity:         6450 mAh
last full capacity:      6263 mAh
battery technology:      rechargeable
design voltage:          14800 mV
design capacity warning: 626 mAh
design capacity low:     189 mAh
capacity granularity 1:  5 mAh
capacity granularity 2:  5 mAh
model number:            DELL 0009Y
serial number:           10421
battery type:            LION
OEM info:                Sony

maalox-2T+B9ReNDUQ@public.gmane.org maalox $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          unknown
present rate:            unknown
remaining capacity:      6450 mAh
present voltage:         16355 mV

Obviously, the KDE battery monitor is working again, as is the gkrellm 
stuff.

Thanks,
Mark

P.S. Does anyone know why the temparature reading from acpi is always 1 
degree higher than the one reported by the i8k module for dells? I see 
both readings side by side in gkrellm.

Yu, Luming wrote:
>>>     -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>>     -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>>     -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>>     -0091: *** Error: ut_allocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes
>>
>>Here is the bug info.  Note that Luming's patch does NOT fix the
> 
> problem
> 
>>but just silences the warnings.  If you use the ASL patch I have
> 
> attached
> 
>>that adds RefOf/DerefOf (credit Mark Santcroos), the problems are
> 
> fixed.
> 
>>You can also revert dsmthdat.c back to what it was pre-0619 and that
> 
> also
> 
>>fixes the problem.
>>
>>http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1728
>>
>>The issue is, ACPI-CA is still not getting its argument-passing right
>>after moving away from "always copy" semantics.
> 
> 
> Please try patch filed at  http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766
> 
> 
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Re: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Nate Lawson]

I can confirm success for one FreeBSD user with a broken Inspiron also.
Thanks for your work and I hope you can come up with a proper fix and
import it soon!

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Mark M. wrote:
> Success! I used the patch below and things seem to be working again.
> Actually, I manually edited my (2.6.0-mm)
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsmthdat.c
> because i don't think the paths in the patch would have worked. I just
> recompiled the kernel and rebooted.
>
> As a side note, I didn't include the before last line of the patch
> "new_obj_desc;", because it wasn't in my version of the file.

We removed that line from FreeBSD since it appears to be a typo.  Patch
was submitted back to Intel.

-Nate


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RE: RE: acpi-20031203-2.6.0.diff brokes the battery status readings with 2.6.0 in DELL Inspiron 8500

[Yu, Luming]

Please try patches:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791



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