On Monday 03 January 2005 04:05 pm, Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Dear list, > > after installing Debian on an old IBM Thinkpad > everything seems to be working fine, except that > the battery state is constant, i.e. it is read > once correctly at bootup and doesn't change > afterwards. On the other hand, the ACPI system does > recognise when I plug/unplug the AC (which sets > /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to off-line, but > does not change /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state from > charging to discharging). > Is this a problem with the BIOS, or is there a > possibility to set a polling interval for the > battery, similar to the one found at > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/polling_frequency, that > just has a ridiculously high default setting? > > Here is a copy of the ACPI lines of dmesg (if it > is of help, I can attach the complete syslog/dmesg); > all ACPI stuff is compiled into the kernel, so no > module loading: > > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~@ uname -a > Linux muldvarp 2.6.9MULDVARP #10 Sun Jan 2 01:29:25 CET 2005 i686 > GNU/Linux --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg|grep ACPI > BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS) > ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0 > ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ > 0x07ffaf8f ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430BX 0x06040000 PTL > 0x000f4240) @ 0x07fffb65 ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 > LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x07fffbd9 ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM BT2 > 0x06040000 MSFT 0x01000007) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to > Level Trigger. > ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816 > ACPI: Interpreter enabled > ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing > ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) > ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 9) > ACPI: Power Resource [PFNH] (off) > ACPI: Power Resource [PFNM] (off) > ACPI: Power Resource [PFNL] (off) > PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) > ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) > ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) > ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] > ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] > ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] > ACPI: Fan [FANH] (off) > ACPI: Fan [FANM] (off) > ACPI: Fan [FANL] (off) > ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states) > ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (54 C) > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 > ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) > ACPI wakeup devices: > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 > --- > > I'd be very glad if someone can help me. > > Thanks in advance! > > Jan Nordholz
Hmm, I don't think I can help much but I have been following the ACPI issue for a new laptop of mine, < 1year. I don't know how IBM supports ACPI in older laptops, maybe APM works better, less functions though. My education so far is the ACPI in the latest 2.6 kernels works pretty well, it is the userland tools that can report all the data in a nice GUI interface is what I haven't found. I have had to resort to the command line to get/set parameters, but I don't use KDE or Gnome (WMaker) which may have more utilities in this area. -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
