Re: No battery information on a ACER Travelmate 4001LMi

François Valenduc
2004-11-04T19:29:25Z

François Valenduc a écrit :

> Hello everybody,
>
> I own a ACER Travelmate 4001Lmi laptop and I don't manage to get
> battery information with ACPI. It has an intel centrino 1,5Ghz
> processor and an Intel 855GM chipset. I have compiled all necessary
> modules but in fact I can only get information about the fan, the
> processor and thermal zone. I can no more get the status of the
> adapter. I have tried different kernel boot parameters (pci=noacpi,
> acpi=on, acpi=ht), but it's always the same. With the latter, there is
> even no /proc/acpi directory. Here belows is the kernel configuration
> concerning ACPI I have choosen:
>
> CONFIG_ACPI=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
> # CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP is not set
> CONFIG_ACPI_AC=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=m
> CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=m
> # CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
> # CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT is not set
> CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
> CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
> CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=m
> # CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF is not set
> # CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI is not set
> CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI=m
> # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI_IBM is not set
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_ACPI=y
>
> In fact, in side the /proc/ac_adapter and /proc/acpi/battery, there is
> nothing. So I guess there is something wrong with ac and battery
> modules. Nevertheless, I am able to load these modules.
>
> Thanks for your advices.
> François Valenduc
>
Hello again,
I forgot to say something important: I am using the 2.6.9 kernel.