From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Was: Re: UBUNTU - acpi battery on ACER TRAVELMATE 4000 WLMI Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:32:31 +0100 Message-ID: <20060420113231.GA27965@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4446C84B.7020104@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:62683 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbWDTLcl (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:32:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Johan Vromans Cc: Berthold Cogel , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:43:16PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Berthold Cogel writes: > > > What is the recommended way to solve the problem with the smart > > battery for newer kernels? > > The right solution is hal, but I don't know whether it has been picked > up yet. No. There needs to be a kernel driver, regardless of how it provides information. hal can only display what the kernel gives it - it's not a set of drivers, and it can't read from a smart battery on its own. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org