Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Battery status not working
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:28:29
Message-Id: b5deea460606131926j1a252c33u19766ce41fa469a0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Battery status not working by Nuitari
1 It works on Windows.
2
3 On 6/13/06, Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:
4 > Google Acer DSDT, it is probably one of their BIOS ACPI bugs.
5 >
6 > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Felipe Ribeiro wrote:
7 >
8 > > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:21:42 -0300
9 > > From: Felipe Ribeiro <felipernb@×××××.com>
10 > > Reply-To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
11 > > To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
12 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Battery status not working
13 > >
14 > > Oh, ok, sorry
15 > >
16 > > I have Acer Aspire 5002
17 > > Turion64ML-30
18 > > 1gb ram
19 > > my chipset is the sis5513(i've added one line on the driver to make it
20 > > support the DMA (somehow the programmer forgot to add))
21 > >
22 > >
23 > > On 6/13/06, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
24 > >> "Felipe Ribeiro" <felipernb@×××××.com>
25 > >> posted b5deea460606120710h39912ad4wdc078673db05923b@××××××××××.com,
26 > >> excerpted below, on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:10:35 -0300:
27 > >>
28 > >> > Hi, I'm having problems to monitor my battery status (on my laptop).
29 > >> >
30 > >> > felipe@mustang ~ $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
31 > >> > present: yes
32 > >> > ERROR: Unable to read battery status
33 > >> >
34 > >> > What can I do to make it work? Here is my acpi conf on kernel:
35 > >>
36 > >> Kernel ACPI config is useful, but you didn't mention what particular brand
37 > >> and model of laptop you have, or its motherboard or the chipset it uses.
38 > >> With that information, there's a good chance someone else will have the
39 > >> same one and you can compare notes. Without it, it's not practical to try
40 > >> to cover all the possibilities.
41 > >>
42 > >>
43 > >>
44 > >> --
45 > >> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
46 > >> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
47 > >> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
48 > >>
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