Hi, Brian, please attach the acpidump output of your laptop. please attach the dmesg output after boot. It would be great if you can file a new bug report at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI and attach these info there. thanks, rui On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 18:50 +0800, Brian Hutsell wrote: > Hello, > > Apologies in > advance if I sent this to the wrong place. I'm not sure where the > kernel's boot-time device enumeration code lives. If this is the wrong > forum, could someone please tell me the email address I should forward > it to? Thanks. > > I have a laptop running Linux 2.6.32-22-generic > #33-Ubuntu SMP x86_64. My laptop is an ACER Aspire 6930. When I boot, > the battery isn't enumerated into "sysfs" like gnome-power-manager > expects it to. > > After boot, the following command finds nothing: > % find /sys -name "BAT1" -print > > If I inspect the contents of one > of the files in the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1 directory, they'll appear: > % cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state > present: yes > capacity state: ok > charging state: charged > present rate: 0 mA > remaining > capacity: 3619 mAh > present voltage: 12131 mV > > % > find /sys -name "BAT1" -print > /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT1 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1 > > This is repeatable on every boot. Once I "cat > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state", gnome-power-manager recognizes my > battery (via upowerd) and all is well. > > This is the > non-"gnome-power-manager" part of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617529 > > > Can someone point me at the right forum, the code that needs to be > modified, or better yet, fix the problem? I've never touched with the > kernel code before. > > All help is appreciated. > --Brian > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
