Re: ACPI battery module broken?

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Dan Goodes <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 law@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > In message <1069277483.5150.1.camel@littlePiet>, Peter Boy writes:
> >  >If I activate ACPI on my IBM Thinkpad T40p, the gnome battery 
applet
> >  >shows up with 0%.
> >  >
> >  >If I check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state I get:
> >  >
> >  >present:                 yes
> >  >ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> >  >
> >  >Is this usual for the current status of acpi support or is 
there an
> > Well, the battery status works on my HP/Compaq 25xx using ACPI.
> 
> FWIW, it also works fine on my Compaq Presario 2100, out-of-the-box 
> (almost, obviously had to add acpi=on to the kernel parameters)
> 
I have an IBM Thinkpad T30. I have your exact same situation. 
acpi=on, enable gnome's battstat applet, shows as 0%, plus it seems 
to be polling something, which causes a slight, but noticable, 
slowdown. Anyone know why this doesn't seem to work correctly with 
Thinkpads? anyway, I just returned to using apm mode. Works well 
enough since my RH9 usage.

Dex




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