From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Berthold Cogel Subject: Was: Re: UBUNTU - acpi battery on ACER TRAVELMATE 4000 WLMI Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:31:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4446C84B.7020104@rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.rrz.uni-koeln.de ([134.95.19.53]:14259 "EHLO smtp-out.rrz.uni-koeln.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751317AbWDSXb2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:31:28 -0400 Received: from smtp-auth.rrz.uni-koeln.de (smtp-auth.rrz.uni-koeln.de [134.95.19.93]) by smtp-out.rrz.uni-koeln.de (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3JNVQsg013398 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:31:26 +0200 Received: from [192.168.2.4] (p5087F3AC.dip.t-dialin.net [80.135.243.172]) (authenticated as user a0537 using CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by smtp-auth.uni-koeln.de (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k3JNVHuS013376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:31:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Johan Vromans wrote: > I too run Linux (Fedora Core) on a TravelMate 4001WLMi[1]. I needed to > change the DSDT since it returned the wrong values for the processor > speeds (!) which, I have been assured, is not an uncommon problem. No > other changes were necessary. In fact, I could have continued using > the unmodified DSDT except for the frequencey scaling. > > For the smart battery, I use the original, EC based implementation by > Rich Townsend, and it works like a charm. > > Later (AFAIK) Rich went to a DSDT-based approach of the smart battery > problem. I personally prefer the EC based version. > Hello! The latest patch from the sbs-linux (Rich Townsend) project works only for kernel versions up to 2.6.15.x for my Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi. What is the recommended way to solve the problem with the smart battery for newer kernels? Regards Berthold