From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 3 09:10:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524D816A407 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from poup.poupinou.org (poup.poupinou.org [195.101.94.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED64D43D5E for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:10:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ducrot@poupinou.org) Received: from ducrot by poup.poupinou.org with local (Exim) id 1GUgI9-0005pR-00; Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:10:21 +0200 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:10:21 +0200 To: "felix.schalck" Message-ID: <20061003091020.GH4945@poupinou.org> References: <4513C3A7.4090607@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4513C3A7.4090607@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Bruno Ducrot Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Battery on Clevo M120 W X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 09:10:24 -0000 On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:06:15PM +0200, felix.schalck wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know wether it is the right place to post this; i first tried > freebsd-acpi, but didn't get any response: maybe I did something wrong... > Well: I'm was running FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop without any main problem > related to acpi. But since I upgraded to 6 - Stable, I miss the battery > life status, which is very annoying... Since it worked on 5.4, it might > not be an ASL problem (anyway: it tried acpidump & ald *.dump and only > got 2 minor errors). Does someone experience a similar problem ? > Related to the battery: the handbook provided by the vendor describes > the battery as a smart batt, although demsg shows battery0: Control Method Battery>. Is it possible to force the load of sm_batt ? This require some hacking you maybe don't want to hear about. A first step is a carreful inspection of the ACPI tables and modification of them. > Secondly: i'm getting a wrong acpi-line status every time I'm rebooting. > After unplugging the ac adapter, and reconnecting it, everything seems > to work fine. Perhaps the adapter is not ready when it's first beeing > tested ? Is there any way to force a new status-init a bit later ? > > Any help or comments woudl be greatly appreciated. I find it to stupid > to leave FreeBSD because of a batt problem; so I ready to read-and-do > everything's neccessary to get it working again. If required, I can post > system log or acpi messages. > Is there an acpidump available somewhere on the web? Something like that: acpidump -d -t > Clevo_M120.asl -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.