On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 23:35, Dexter Ang wrote: > 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 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list May want to check your dsdt at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/... I had this problem on my dell i8500 using red hat 9 and acpi... I had to patch in the dsdt to get the battery to work properly. Worth a shot. -- Robert Brimhall <rbrimhal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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