Re: 2.6.1[4,5]: battery info lost

Gene Heskett
2006-01-12T19:48:27Z

On Thursday 12 January 2006 14:17, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>Alexander Wagner napsal(a):
>> Problem: Linux seems to loose the battery information in recent
>> kernels.
>>
>> Keywords: Battery, ACPI, 2.6.14.x, 2.6.15
>>
>> Description:
>>
>> Since 2.6.14 I notice that after some time the Kernel seems
>> to loose the battery information via ACPI. This behaviour
>> is reproducable though I do not know how to provoke it (it
>> just happens). Occurs as well on the R52 from which are the
>> logs below as on my T41p. On LKML this problem seems also
>> to be mentioned by Narayan Desai and the same issues seems
>> to be reported by Alejandro Bonilla Beeche and Geoff Mishkin
>> mentioning this problem on other IBMs. As the latter uesed
>
>Me too with 2.6.15 on asus m6r. In 2.6.14 helped ec_burst=1 kernel
> parameter. I will try few things with that and let you know (tomorrow
> or the day after). It is broken since 2.6.14 times, IIRC 2.6.13 was
> OK.
>I have also problems with irqs I found out yesterday. Don't know if it
> does have sth. to do with this [acpi] problem (I mean LOC: 4394987,
> ERR: 891474, timer is 4394964).
>
>regards,

Just to provide a data point, this is a biostar board and gkrellm
displays the cmos battery voltage as 3.14 volts right now, booted to
2.6.15.

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