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Bug 105072 - /proc/acpi/battery directory emtpy so no battery support for my laptop
Summary: /proc/acpi/battery directory emtpy so no battery support for my laptop
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers
URL: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.c...
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Reported: 2005-09-06 15:09 UTC by David
Modified: 2005-12-02 04:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
dmesg (dmesg.txt,16.04 KB, text/plain)
2005-09-08 16:03 UTC, David
Details

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Description David 2005-09-06 15:09:43 UTC
Well, I enabled ACPI battery and everything else like Thermal Temp, Fan,
Processor, etc... . Cpufreq is enable and I can monitor the temp and the
processor speed. But, battery, fan and ac adapter are not working. Dmesg confirm
that there was somekind of problems with ACPI. I'm actually not able to monitor
my battery and on a laptop... it is quite important. Gkrellm can't monitor
anything and I've tried at least 4 apps and no one worked.

So, if you can help me with this, it will be appreciate.
David

Asus Z9 Laptop, Linux Gentoo 2.6.12-r10

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enable ACPI options in kernel like battery and fan.
2.Compile and reboot
3.Very simple :D
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-06 15:25:54 UTC
Well, sorry to say but the laptop's BIOS is most probably broken. If that's the
case, then there's nothing we can do about it. *Attach* the relevant dmesg
output concerning ACPI issues and reopen then.
Comment 2 David 2005-09-08 16:03:02 UTC
Created attachment 67973 [details]
dmesg

I just upgrade my BIOS and nothing changed. So here is my dmesg.

Thanks
David
Comment 3 David 2005-09-08 16:04:16 UTC
There is my dmesg after BIOS upgrade.

David
Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-08 17:14:37 UTC
Hmm, yeah. Looks like b0rked BIOS. :/
Comment 5 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-09 15:07:15 UTC
Please see if 2.6.13 helps at all. Post dmesg output from there if there is
still a problem.
Comment 6 David 2005-09-09 15:42:38 UTC
Hi,

The 2.6.13 make the same dmesg error for ACPI...

In fact this kernel is making Thermal Temp not working...

David
Comment 7 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-16 04:04:22 UTC
This is an upstream kernel bug, please add your experiences to
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4410
Comment 8 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-11-17 07:03:23 UTC
See comment #19 on the upstream bug:

Please test linux-2.6.14-rc1 with ec_burst=1.

(I suggest that you test 2.6.14 or 2.6.15-rc1 with that argument)
Comment 9 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-12-02 04:22:14 UTC
Please readd "watch-linux-bugzilla" to the status whiteboard once you have
responded to comment #8 on this bug.