Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

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On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:10:12AM +0200, David Gómez wrote:

> Smart batteries are accesed thru the SMBus. If you want to know
> battery information, like the charge, you need to talk to the SMBus.

Smart batteries are i2c devices, but you talk to them via the embedded 
controller rather than via the system SMBus.

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Matthew Garrett | [email protected]
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