From: "Erich Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yup. I had the same problem. This crude patch > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553 > > solved the problem for me. > > Looking at that patch their ACPI support is not more than an ugly > hack... Hardcoding battery names is bad... as is hard-coding AC device > names... > My power supply is still called "AC"... > And i think these names are not in the acpi source, but come from the > ACPI table of the Bios - so they are hardware dependant. > > (And for sure not every machine uses BAT1 as battery, most might > use BAT0 first...) > Absolutely true. The devices are named in the ACPI DSDT table, and _many_ power supplies are not named AC. Batteries are a little more standard, but you're right - my one and only battery is BAT0.
Erich also wrote: > Doesn't work here: 2.0.3-1 Mouse moves only choppy. > gkacpi didn't cause my mouse to move choppy, neither does > while true; do cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state; sleep 1; done > but i can reproduce it when i do > while true; do cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info; sleep 1; done > iirc, .../state doesn't often contain enough information to truly monitor the battery status
