From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Is it possible for ACPI to blow up the battery? Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:04:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20050128120407.GA6725@elf.ucw.cz> References: <41F7FD56.8090309@calt129.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41F7FD56.8090309-iP/H7R5l9gZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=FCneyt?= Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl