From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Domfors Subject: Re: ACER Aspire 5000 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:30:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20050829180845.98096.qmail@web81605.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_193_10891919.1125354652537" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050829180845.98096.qmail-ZDCUxwME616A/QwVtaZbd3CJp6faPEW9@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: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ------=_Part_193_10891919.1125354652537 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Right... The cause of the problem is that the symbol Z007 is never defined.= =20 It is referenced in a structure ("PBST") that holds the battery state. That= =20 structure is pretty much overwritten every time the _BST-method is invoked,= =20 so I *think* you can replace Z007 with 0xFFFFFFFF (which means unknown=20 remaining battery capacity and current). The changes are at line 3010 - 301= 1=20 on a decompiled dsdt. The new PBST declaration would look like: Name (PBST, Package (0x04) { 0x00,=20 0xFFFFFFFF,=20 0xFFFFFFFF,=20 0x2710 }) However, there were some more errors that surfaced when recompiling, and=20 it's getting late... Regards, Andreas ------=_Part_193_10891919.1125354652537 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
Right... The cause of the problem is that the symbol Z007 = is never defined. It is referenced in a structure ("PBST") that holds the battery state. That structure is pretty much overwritten every time the _BST-method is invoked, so I *think* you can replace Z007 with 0xFFFFFFFF (which means unknown remaining battery capacity and current). The changes are at line 3010 - 3011 on a decompiled dsdt. The new PBST declaration would look like:
Name (PBST, Package (0x04)
{
    0x00,
    0xFFFFFFFF,
    0xFFFFFFFF,
    0x2710
})
However, there were some more errors that surfaced when recompiling, and it= 's getting late...

Regards, Andreas
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