On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 21:10 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:31 -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > > Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 23:35 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > On Sunday, 08 October 2006 at 23:16, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > So, is there any good reason this feature isn't available on the Fedora > > > > > kernel? Thanks. > > > > > > There is. Read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161892#c23 > > > > and other comments. > > > > > > > > Please file your problem as a kernel bug and wait for it to be fixed. > > > > > Please read my blog entry. The ACPI interpreter isn't broken, the BIOS > > > just doesn't read from the hardware like it should. > > > > Then the BIOS is broken, complain to the BIOS vendor? > > Windows boots; they don't care. Except that, in Richard's case, Windows was in error as well. Lenovo hardcoded the values rather than querying the battery for the actual information. Therefore, Windows had the same bad info that Linux did. I think in this case, the ACPI devel mail was right; this is a developer issue and it should be reported to Lenovo, and they will be much more likely to fix it as Windows appeared to be broken as well. Dan > -- > Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
