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From: "David Gómez" <david@pleyades.net>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:10:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050904091012.GA4394@fargo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EBje3-0002GW-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

Hi,

On Sep 04 at 02:50:07, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> wrote:
> 
> > SMBus
> 
> Is there anything on there that you actually want to talk to?

Smart batteries are accesed thru the SMBus. If you want to know
battery information, like the charge, you need to talk to the SMBus.

There are some patches out there, not integrated yet into ACPI
i think...

regards,

-- 
David Gómez                                      Jabber ID: davidge@jabber.org

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-04  9:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-03 22:58 Brand-new notebook useless with Linux Chuck Ebbert
2005-09-04  1:50 ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-04  9:10   ` David Gómez [this message]
2005-09-04 14:26     ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-04 14:38   ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2005-09-04 21:25   ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-04 22:02     ` Matthew Garrett
2005-09-04  3:38 ` Lee Revell
2005-09-04  5:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-09-04  5:46   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-09-04 15:10     ` Daniel Goller
2005-09-04  6:53 ` Paul Misner
2005-09-04  8:05   ` roucaries bastien
2005-09-04 10:35 ` bert hubert
2005-09-04 11:27 ` Folkert van Heusden
2005-09-05  1:49 ` Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-09-05 10:10 ` Mathieu
2005-09-06  2:10   ` Cal Peake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-04 16:18 Chuck Ebbert
2005-09-08 19:19 Chuck Ebbert
2005-09-08 19:31 ` Lee Revell
2005-09-08 19:40 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-09-09 18:09 Chuck Ebbert

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