ACPI doesn't sense one of my batteries after I reinsert it

ACPI doesn't sense one of my batteries after I reinsert it

[Brian Kendig]

I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT laptop.  It has two batteries in it, 
and ACPI senses them both, but if I remove the left one then ACPI will 
never detect it again even if I reinsert it.

The left battery is BAT0. The right battery is BAT1 (its slot can also 
be used for an internal floppy or cdrom). I should be able to remove and 
reinsert either or both batteries (removing both at the same time 
requires that I have AC power, of course), and generally this works, 
except that once I pull out BAT0 the system never sees it again even 
after I reinsert it.  It still draws power from that battery; if I pull 
out both batteries and reinsert the left one then 
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state says "present: no" and the Gnome battery 
charge monitor says I'm at 0%, but the laptop will continue to use its 
charge and keep running.

This has happened on several kernels I've tried, but most recently on 
2.6.7-rc2.

I'd like to log this as a bug; where's the correct place for me to do 
so, and what additional information should I include?



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Re: ACPI doesn't sense one of my batteries after I reinsert it

[Sebastian Henschel]

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hello brian...

* Brian Kendig <brian-TPUXs3lpsvIxsqv6Oivclw@public.gmane.org> [2004-06-07 10:31 +0200]:
> I have a Dell Latitude CPi D266XT laptop.  It has two batteries in it, 
> and ACPI senses them both, but if I remove the left one then ACPI will 
> never detect it again even if I reinsert it.

[...]

> I'd like to log this as a bug; where's the correct place for me to do 
> so, and what additional information should I include?

take a look at http://acpi.sf.net/index.html for further instructions.

bye,
 sebastian
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