Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

From: David GÃmez
Date: Sun Sep 04 2005 - 04:16:55 EST


Hi,

On Sep 04 at 02:50:07, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > SMBus
>
> Is there anything on there that you actually want to talk to?

Smart batteries are accesed thru the SMBus. If you want to know
battery information, like the charge, you need to talk to the SMBus.

There are some patches out there, not integrated yet into ACPI
i think...

regards,

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