From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Venda Subject: Re: can't read battery, dsdt bugged? Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:11:14 +0000 Message-ID: <41A37D42.9040204@mega.ist.utl.pt> References: <41A35CE6.90803@paranoici.org> <41A35FFD.9050701@mega.ist.utl.pt> <41A36560.90701@paranoici.org> <41A36ACE.9030602@mega.ist.utl.pt> <41A3709F.7020404@paranoici.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <41A3709F.7020404-XtQPfPCVGG7srOwW+9ziJQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: ultrakorne Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ultrakorne wrote: > Pedro Venda wrote: >=20 >> Pedro Venda wrote: >> you probably have a smart battery. I have an acer travelmate 4001wlmi=20 >> which has one. There are no smart battery drivers that work in linux. >=20 >=20 > 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4) SMBus Controller (re= v=20 > 03) SMBus (system management bus) is a physical communication bus which lives= in your computer, whether you have a smart battery or not. to dissassemble your DSDT dmesg or lspci are useless. you need to cat /pr= oc/acpi/dsdt and use iasl to dissassemble the output file. look in the ge= ntoo forum, there is a very good tutorial there. > ... i cant belive i cant get this working... but how u can avoid loosin= g=20 > power when u are working, if u cant see battery left? Usually, I plug it into AC power. if that's impossible, 2 things can happ= en: if I have an idea of how long the battery has left... i use it for 3/4 of= my estimated time, just to be safe. if I have no idea of how much power the battery has left, I won't use it. it's not that you can't get it working... it's just that nobody else has = written a driver yet. probably smart batteries are not the most widely us= ed batteries... I am learning and gathering information to start coding, but I don't have= enough time to do so in the next few months. also some other people on t= his list are doing the same. lmsensors people have=20 some 2.4 work... but not enough to make it useful. regards, pedro venda. --=20 Pedro Jo=E3o Lopes Venda email: pjlv-aHmAgkVUFT6Joy8PIJZ9VA@public.gmane.org http://arrakis.dhis.org ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/