Battery on Clevo M120 W

[felix.schalck]

Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Thanks for help Bruno. You french ? because I am :)
- OK for the wired sm_batt hack.
- Sure, I can post a dump: checkout attachement file or lookat here 
<http://kwerkus.free.fr/clevo_m120w.asl>

Felix
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