Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:16:40 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: Espen Tagestad <espen@modula.no> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions please Message-ID: <20050602121640.GA8899@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <429ED974.7030302@modula.no> References: <20050602044847.24791.qmail@web60413.mail.yahoo.com> <1117696191.429eb0bf7aab8@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no> <20050602091305.GP32472@poupinou.org> <429ED974.7030302@modula.no>
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:03:32PM +0200, Espen Tagestad wrote: > Bruno Ducrot wrote: > >For those laptops, someone provide patches to the DSDT which happens > >to be a generic workaround for OS that do not support yet the acpi smbus > >interface to the EC (and therefore the smart batteries behind this > >smbus). > > > >See > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbs-linux > >for more information > > Do you mean that you'll only have to get the right DSDT to get it > working? yes. > Isn't the DSDT generated on basis of each laptops acpi > implementation? Indeed, but from the README into the sbs-cm-20050328: *) Acer Extensa 3002WLMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4000LMi [c] *) Acer TravelMate 4000WLMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4001LMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4001WLMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4002LMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4502LMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 4502WLMi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 2303LCi [c] *) Acer TravelMate 3201XCi [w] *) Acer TravelMate 3202XCi [w] 'w' mean its working (under Linux, but I dont see why this will not work under any other OS supporting ACPI control method batteries as FreeBSD), 'c' mean its patch correctly the ASL, but have not been tested. > Some weeks ago I also got some patches from > Hans Petter Selasky, but I never got them to work as they should. Nate > Lawson, which is working on the acpi implementation in FreeBSD, has > gotten them too, but as I understood him on the acpi mailing list he is > too busy right now to merge them into cvs. > > Anyway, I would really appreciate it if someone had a working solution > on this. Running out of battery all the time is very irritating. -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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