-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 01:54:38PM +0100, Janis Beckert wrote: > Hey everyone! > > First off: I am not sure if this is the proper place to report this issue. > If you know the proper channel, please point me to it. I think the correct place would be the kernel ACPI list, but I'm unsure. > > My new W550s contains an internal battery, and has an external replaceable > slice. Unfortunately, I cannot read out the status of the internal battery, > nor its current power > > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status > Unknown > > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power_now > 0 What's the current laptop status? Is it plugged in, is it discharging? And what's the state of the external battery? Because the laptop will start by discharging the internal battery, so it might just be that BAT0 doesn't provide any current right now. It might be worth trying to empty BAT1 and see what changes. > > Maybe it's also interesting to note that the runtimes seem to be disabled: > > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power/runtime_enabled > disabled > > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/power/runtime_status > unsupported I have no idea what the runtimes are, sorry. > > On the other hand, energy_now and energy_full are reported: > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_full > 45610000 > > % cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now > 40500000 So the internal battery is charged. Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJVArJ9AAoJEG3bU/KmdcClIDIH/1cko95i9zrwjuAt06GOWmKa aCG3LW8nCto7N8YOmV5MXhm3BA0c+crb5erkTFNlNn3yGuuqjcxlQrDR56BbMnsJ xEFx6zxm2SD5guXss/LwF3Ld9jxyGw+dw7JCTFOgNmLsEpADaR6VqLgXuPPxIdBE 6hqtxi1/+avFj3Qr6K3bDDbPbJysceeSEfX0cBPStkFzF0ASKG7ECukyYbzHXoCw V5zuulSqgQjGDDWkZnuq4JKay5eRtYjWiXm84+mGDhvWsuSB4VCF9QMriLasviKX YpLpYZYQ4yrpcRs6H47ECn67uSKyQmlYGrk0uWSZ0iXlnxFWuApbpuQzuO2ynC0= =YbPq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
