Battery on Clevo M120 W

[Bruno Ducrot]

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

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