Re: Problems installing ACPI

[Heiko Ettelbrueck <hbruckynews-hi6Y0CQ0nG0@public.gmane.org>]

Christian Brix Folsted Andersen wrote:
> But when i boot the kernel it hangs with the same error as previous.
> However i read at this site: http://repose.cx/n160/ that passing the
> parameter "pci=noacpi" should solve the problem. It did. Well at least
> the booting problem.

I forgot to mention that - sorry! I also use that boot option, my 
notebook won't work without it, too.

> I do not know if the acpi is working correctly. When i enter the power
> control setup in kde i get this message:
> 
> Your computer seems to have a partial ACPI installation
> probably ACPI was enabled, but some of the sub-option
> were not enabled - you need to enable at least 'AC Adaptor'
> and 'Control Method Battery' and rebuild your kernel
> 
> I did enable both of these. What can i do next?

I haven't used ACPI tools in KDE yet, as I prefer Gnome at the moment 
(there's a Gnome tool called battstat_applet that shows the current 
battery state, it works fine for me). That's why I have to guess where 
the issue could _possibly_ be...

When your Evo has booted, please have a look into the /proc directory. 
Do you have a directory called "acpi" there? What is inside? There 
should be e.g. a directory "battery" which contains another directory 
for each battery (should be "CMB0" for the Evo N160). In 
/proc/acpi/battery/CMB0, you should find some pseudo files which provide 
information about your batter, e.g. "info" for general information and 
"state" for the current state of the battery. If you have these 
directories and files, please tell me about the content of "info" and 
"state".

Regards
Heiko



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