ACPI battery module broken?

Ow Mun Heng ow.mun.heng at wdc.com
Thu Nov 20 02:27:15 UTC 2003


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Boy [mailto:pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 5:31 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: ACPI battery module broken?
> 
> 
> If I activate ACPI on my IBM Thinkpad T40p, the gnome battery applet
> shows up with 0%.
> 
> If I check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state I get:
> 
> present:                 yes
> ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> 
> Is this usual for the current status of acpi support or is there an
> error? 
> 

This is on a RH9 with custom kernel 2.4.22-ac4 and acpi works out of the
box.. I get /proc/acpi directory and basically it's all good.

I don't have to pass acpi=on to the kernel boot parameters..





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