On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 21:42, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> Not dumb, just tired and too hasty. I had already done a 'lsmod',
> but as I could get no relevant information from the /proc/acpi
> items I looked in the 'config' and then read the 'm' for an 'n'.
> And then blurted a hasty reply. Completely unthinkingly.
>
> For example: 'cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state' shows:
>
> present: yes
> capacity state: ok
> charging state: unknown
> present rate: 0 mA
> remaining capacity: 0 mAh
> present voltage: 0 mV
>
> whether I am running on batteries or not.
>
> Unless I am too dumb to extract the correct information {^_^}.
Sorry for the tone of my reply, I was a bit angry earlier :). It's
really not good form to be advising people to recompile their kernels
when there's no need for it, though. The oddest thing I've noticed since
converting to Linux is the inexplicable geek addiction to recompiling
kernels...=)
I still can't tell from what you said above whether you actually have
the battery module loaded when getting that output or not. If you do,
then there's presumably something buggy about your laptop's ACPI
implementation which messes up Linux's ACPI support. If that's the case,
there's nothing Mandrake can do about it - report it upstream, to the
acpi4linux guys.
--
adamw
