Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:10:21 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: "felix.schalck" <felix.schalck@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Battery on Clevo M120 W Message-ID: <20061003091020.GH4945@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <4513C3A7.4090607@gmail.com> References: <4513C3A7.4090607@gmail.com>
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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: <ACPI > 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.
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