A30-303 - acpi-20040211-2.4.25 - battery state error

A30-303 - acpi-20040211-2.4.25 - battery state error

[Vladimir Volcko]

Hello all!!

  On my Toshiba A30-303 - vanilla kernel 2.4.25 (acpi 20040116) or 
kernel 2.4.25 + acpi-20040211-2.4.25.diff.bz2
or kernel 2.4.24 + acpi-20040211-2.4.24.diff.bz2 I have problem with 
battery state monitoring ...  aproximately after 15-45 minutes of 
computer running I don't get right battery state. For monitoring I am 
using KDE Kapacity program, which check state of battery each 60 s. 
(errors described below)

[root-BuUY8psAA2Y@public.gmane.org /]# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present:                 yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status

/var/log/messages is full of folowing messages:
Feb 29 19:13:22 sys kernel: acpi_battery-0195 [998] 
acpi_battery_get_statu: Error evaluating _BST
Feb 29 19:13:42 sys kernel:  dswload-0279: *** Error: Looking up [PBST] 
in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
Feb 29 19:13:42 sys kernel:  psparse-0588 [1005] ps_parse_loop         : 
During name lookup/catalog, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS

I found thread with similar problem (2.6.3 + D600 + battery state + 
BUG?? [Was] Battery status sometimes missing), but no solution.

Any idea what is wrong?

With regard Vladimir Volcko

PS: sorry for my english ;-)




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