Re: smartbattery status on Laptop

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Please open bug at bugzilla.kernel.org and attach acpidump output.

Thanks,
Alex.

John Floyd пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> Have a specialised weatherproof laptop with a smartbattery running FC6
>  latest kernel. I cannot get battey monitoring going. Have loaded
>  modules i2c_ec and sbs with out any errors.
> 
> log/messages indicate that the EC driver loads with
> ACPI: EC HC smbus [SMB1]
> 
> There is nothing from the sbs module though it is loaded and
> the /proc/acpi/battery directory is empty.
> 
> The smartbattery can be recognized. If I run the following command ...
> 
> smartbattery 1             (1 is to specify the i2c dev,
>                             needs i2c-dev module loaded)
> 
> then I get battery status, which behaves properly (changes if I unplug
>  AC etc). It shows Battery name, status , charge or discharge current,
>  time to full/left, temperature etc.  The smartbattery command came
>  with the initial code exploring the ec-smbus interface a couple of
>  years ago by Bruno Ducrot.
> 
> However nothing shows up in the proc/acpi/battery directory under the
>  sbs module, and therefore the gui battery indicators do not work
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Love to get this working in the gui.
> 
> 
> John
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