Bug 9580

Summary:	acpi-sources report battery status in a different way
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luca Barbato <lu_zero>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Brandon Low (RETIRED) <lostlogic>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	hanno
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2002-10-23 18:56:09 UTC

the previous kernels seems to start counting BAT from 1, the acpi-sources seems
that is counting from 0 and there are other changes in the naming conventions,
not sure if that is on purpose or not.

Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-24 00:20:56 UTC

so?  They use a totally different ACPI core.

Comment 2 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2002-10-24 14:50:39 UTC

so almost every battery docklet/indicator is brocken...

now the solution is patch almost every app that uses acpi

and put a warning at the end of the acpi-sources install...

Comment 3 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-24 14:58:45 UTC

lets think more on this

Comment 4 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2002-11-02 15:40:56 UTC

The new ACPI uses a different /proc-scheme, but most apps already have fixes for
that.
acpid works fine with new acpi, the gnome-battery-applet with gnome2 also does.
I think this is invalid.
As the new acpi will become part of the kernel in the future, you should report
bugs about the apps not working with the acpi-kernel.