Hardware information - what is needed [Toshiba L10]

Hardware information - what is needed [Toshiba L10]

[Fred Thiele]

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Hello ML,

nobody has answered my previous mail yet and i fear nobody has an
answer what i can do. I really plan to get the AC/Battery
Information working on my Toshiba SatPro L10 within linux. Yesterday
I booted up windows in the hope to get additional hardware
information, or to know how the battery stuff is treated within
windows:

Microsoft Smart Battery
InstanceID: SMBUS\SMBBATT\7&277F0662&0&BATTERY0

Microsoft Smart Battery Subsystem
InstanceID: ACPI\ACPI0002\6&28CA2229&0

I guess the second one is the battery itself. Can anyone provide me
background information on what these things mean? 

Another thing i found in the device manager is some information
called "energy capacity", this is in several hardware included:

PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED
PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED

Later on this stuff os used like this:

S0: D0
S1: n/a
S2: n/a
S3: D3
S4: D3
S5: D3

What is this meant to be, the sleep modes?

If anybody could point me to the right literature to understand this
better i'd appreciate that. 

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Best regards,

Fred Thiele 

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Re: Hardware information - what is needed [Toshiba L10]

[jahno]

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I don't know if i've got the same smartbattery, but if you compile your kernel without battery and ac dapter support, patch the kernel with the acpi-ec-2.6*.diff from the attached tar.gz file 
and issue a make && make install && make clean command it is supposed to work!!
worked for me...i wish you luck
regs
johnnyboy
ps.: oh yes, you've gots to recompile your kernel

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 09:11, Fred Thiele wrote:
> 
> Hello ML,
> 
> nobody has answered my previous mail yet and i fear nobody has an
> answer what i can do. I really plan to get the AC/Battery
> Information working on my Toshiba SatPro L10 within linux. Yesterday
> I booted up windows in the hope to get additional hardware
> information, or to know how the battery stuff is treated within
> windows:
> 
> Microsoft Smart Battery
> InstanceID: SMBUS\SMBBATT\7&277F0662&0&BATTERY0
> 
> Microsoft Smart Battery Subsystem
> InstanceID: ACPI\ACPI0002\6&28CA2229&0
> 
> I guess the second one is the battery itself. Can anyone provide me
> background information on what these things mean? 
> 
> Another thing i found in the device manager is some information
> called "energy capacity", this is in several hardware included:
> 
> PDCAP_D0_SUPPORTED
> PDCAP_D3_SUPPORTED
> 
> Later on this stuff os used like this:
> 
> S0: D0
> S1: n/a
> S2: n/a
> S3: D3
> S4: D3
> S5: D3
> 
> What is this meant to be, the sleep modes?
> 
> If anybody could point me to the right literature to understand this
> better i'd appreciate that. 
> 

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