From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbTDHKAu (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:00:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261294AbTDHKAu (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:00:50 -0400 Received: from [195.95.38.160] ([195.95.38.160]:29430 "HELO mail.vt4.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261292AbTDHKAt (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:00:49 -0400 From: DevilKin To: Thomas Hood , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.5.66] APM loses track of batteries Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:12:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <1049749907.1801.16.camel@thanatos> In-Reply-To: <1049749907.1801.16.camel@thanatos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304081212.35208.devilkin-lkml@blindguardian.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 07 April 2003 23:11, Thomas Hood wrote: > With two batteries inserted you see: > > devilkin@laptop:~$ cat /proc/apm > > 1.16ac 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ? > > I think the problem is that your firmware doesn't know how > to report battery status when two batteries are installed. > When you momentarily remove one of the two batteries, > the firmware is momentarily able to report the state of the > remaining battery. > > My guess is that the only solution is to use ACPI. Unfortunately, this works flawlessly under 2.4.20. With APM. So I really doubt this... DK