Re: ACPI / APM - Battery level not readable on HP Omnibook XE3 (again)

From: Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Date: Fri Jun 28 2002 - 09:53:57 EST

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Hi Lars,

On 27 Jun 2002 10:03:11 +0200 Lars Duesing <ld@stud.fh-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
> I sent a question regarding this in early December.
> ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-48/0691.html )
> Since then I got many questions whether this is already fixed or not.
> Latest 2.4-Kernel is still not fixed.
>
> Is there so much trouble in this?

As far as APM is concerned this is not fixable in the kernel as the BIOS
appears to have a bug. Please see if your vendor has an updated BIOS.

The ACPI guys may be able to tell you how to work around this, but maybe
not. Again it is a bug in the BIOS.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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