On Dienstag, 4. März 2008, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Michael Eyrich wrote:
> > Hi,
> > kpowersave reports two batteries (Total, Battery 1, Battery
> > 2) if there is one in the system (IBM Thinkpad R52) and
> > four, if there are two of them in the system. Is there a
> > reason for it (e.g. compatibility interfaces)?
>
> That's the reason: Newer kernels now have a battery interface in both
> /proc/acpi (obsolete) and in /sysfs and old HAL cannot handle that. This is
> not really a kpowersave issue.
> At least that's how i understood the problem back when it happened to me.
> HAL should be fixed in the mean time, so you could try updating your
> packages to the latest versions and complain to your distribution's
> bugzilla if they still have that problem.

I've already fixed in git master of HAL on 29.01.2008. Your distro should 
update HAL with the changes.

> If i am wrong with my explanation, i'm sure that Danny will correct me ;-)

Nothing wrong here ;-)

Danny


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