Re: [ACPI] 2.6.12-rc1-mm[1-3]: ACPI battery monitor does not work

From: Yu, Luming
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 04:36:55 EST


Please testing patch filed at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3851#c64
My testing results on toshiba satellite M20 is:

/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0#time cat state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charging
present rate: 1500 mA
remaining capacity: 4064 mAh
present voltage: 15000 mV

real 0m0.023s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.020s

Thanks
Luming

On Friday 01 April 2005 17:51, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 1 of April 2005 11:31, Yu, Luming wrote:
> > On Thursday 31 March 2005 16:44, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, 30 of March 2005 12:05, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, 30 of March 2005 07:53, Yu, Luming wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:56, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There is a problem on my box (Asus L5D, x86-64 kernel) with the
> > > > > > ACPI battery driver in the 2.6.12-rc1-mm[1-3] kernels.  Namely,
> > > > > > the battery monitor that I use (the kpowersave applet from SUSE
> > > > > > 9.2) is no longer able to report the battery status (ie how much
> > > > > > % it is loaded).  It can only check if the AC power is connected
> > > > > > (if it is connected, kpowersave behaves as though there was no
> > > > > > battery in the box, and if it is not connected, kpowersave
> > > > > > always shows that the battery is 1% loaded).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, there are big latencies on loading and accessing the
> > > > > > battery module, but the module loads successfully and there's
> > > > > > nothing suspicious in dmesg.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please let me know if you need any additional information.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Greets,
> > > > > > Rafael
> > > > >
> > > > > Could you just revert ec-mode patch, then retest?
> > > >
> > > > Could you please point me to it?
> > >
> > > I assume you mean the "Enable EC Burst Mode" patch at:
> > >
> > > http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net:8080/to-akpm/cset%401.2181.17.12?nav=inde
> > >x.htm l|ChangeSet@-2w
> > >
> > > Anyway, reverting this patch helps. :-)
> >
> > Could you let me see Dmesg and  DSDT?
>
> They are available at:
>
> http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/050401/dmesg.out
> http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/050401/dsdt
>
> The dmesg output is from 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 with the patch reverted.
>
> Greets,
> Rafael
>
>
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