Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie

Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie

[Bo Harron (Global American Inc.)]

Need some serious help. I am a newbie to linux. I am using Suse 9.3
with Kernel 2.6.11..4-20a on an Acer Travelmate 4000LCi.  It uses the
smart battery and would realy like to see the status of my battery. it
is the only thing I have not been able to do just yet.  Everything
else seems to be just fine.  I could use some help (remember I am a
newbie) in getting this done, I want to try Rich Townsends fix but am
afraid that all the work i have done to get everything else working
would be lost.  A step by step would be great, also I have never
recompiled a kernel so have no idea where to begin.
Thanks in advance - Bo


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Re: Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie

[Johan Vromans]

Hi Bo,

If Suse provides for DSDT overriding upon boot (I've heard some
rumours on that, but I'm not familiar with Suse) _AND_ someone can
provide an augmented DSDT for your particular notebook, it would be as
easy as installing a file and rebooting. But that would require
assistance of another Travelmate 4000LCi user.

Otherwise, my suggestion would be to consult the Suse mailing lists on
how to re-create your current (installed) kernel. When you are able to
do that, I'd advise to take Rich Townsends sbs module that implements
the classical battery status API.

-- Johan


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Re: Re: Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Johan Vromans schrieb:
> Hi Bo,
> 
> If Suse provides for DSDT overriding upon boot (I've heard some
> rumours on that, but I'm not familiar with Suse) _AND_ someone can

Yes, that function is indeed shipped by SUSE. IIRC the handbook
mentions how to do it.

> provide an augmented DSDT for your particular notebook, it would be as
> easy as installing a file and rebooting. But that would require

It's a bit different: Copy new DSDT to a specific location, set
ACPI_DSDT="location_of_DSDT" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, run mkinitrd
and reboot.

> assistance of another Travelmate 4000LCi user.
> 
> Otherwise, my suggestion would be to consult the Suse mailing lists on
> how to re-create your current (installed) kernel. When you are able to
> do that, I'd advise to take Rich Townsends sbs module that implements
> the classical battery status API.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/


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