Re: Is it possible for ACPI to blow up the battery?

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> It may be really a dumb question, but I've really no idea.
> 
> I have a Samsung P10 and found at behnel.de & SF-ACPI page some 
> instructions to patch the DSDT table under Suse 9.1pro. I followed those 
> as close as I can and I guess ACPI works somehow. Well, wakeup after 
> sleep and CPU-throttling doesn't work though :(
> 
> Now to my dismay the battery stopped charging at all, it is completely 
> empty. No matter what I do, it doesn't get charged. The battery is about 
> 2 yrs old but was pretty OK before, i.e. lasted about 1.5 hrs unplugged. 
> Is it possible for DSDT patches to blow up the battery & charging units 
> or you think the battery's (physically) died all of a sudden?

Well, hard to say, everything is possible, and so far I seen a lot of
funny stuff, but every time it recovered at least after removing
battery and removing AC for more than minute.
								Pavel
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