Battery status

chronochaos · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 7:31 pm Post subject: Battery status

Hi!

I've got a HP OmniBook XE3L which I've installed Gentoo on and it works almost perfect! The only thing that's bugging me is that I can't get the battery monitor to work =/

I've got ACPI support in my kernel, and here's some extra info:

$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info
present: yes
design capacity: 5400 mAh
last full capacity: 5400 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 8191 mV
design capacity warning: 540 mAh
design capacity low: 162 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 264 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 3780 mAh
model number: LIP9071
serial number:
battery type: LiON
OEM info: HP

$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state
present: yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status

Does anyone know how to fix this (if it's possible)?

magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

I had the same kind of problem with my gericom laptop. I fixed it by using a kernel 2.5,or a wolk-sources.
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Hypnos · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 2:35 am Post subject:

I had to hack the assembly code in the ACPI bios to get battery status to work with my Compaq 2800T. HOWTO is on the ACPI devel site on SourceForge.
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metalac · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:16 am Post subject:

for my Sony laptop I just had to patch my current kernel (2.4.20) with the newest ACPI patch from http://acpi.sf.net and then everything worked fine. Also go to www.linux-laptop.net and see what they have over there about your laptop.
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magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

http://www.linux-laptops.net is dead.it hasn t been updated for ages, and the maintener doesn t even answer to mails.

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