ACPI battery module broken?
Dexter Ang
thepoch at mydestiny.net
Thu Nov 20 05:35:14 UTC 2003
Dan Goodes <fedora-list at planetmirror.com> said:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 law at redhat.com wrote:
>
> > In message <1069277483.5150.1.camel at littlePiet>, Peter Boy writes:
> > >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
> > Well, the battery status works on my HP/Compaq 25xx using ACPI.
>
> FWIW, it also works fine on my Compaq Presario 2100, out-of-the-box
> (almost, obviously had to add acpi=on to the kernel parameters)
>
I have an IBM Thinkpad T30. I have your exact same situation.
acpi=on, enable gnome's battstat applet, shows as 0%, plus it seems
to be polling something, which causes a slight, but noticable,
slowdown. Anyone know why this doesn't seem to work correctly with
Thinkpads? anyway, I just returned to using apm mode. Works well
enough since my RH9 usage.
Dex
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