Thanks George and tuxsage! I got the issue resolved as well. With the
dsdt fixed, I can finally see the battery icon and statistics!
The only issue is that with the new kernel my wireless card (Broadcom)
only works intermittently. At times, on startup it doesnt show any
wireless networks and is
I have nearly the same configuration on my laptop, and exactly the same
issue. I have tried the latest mainline kernel
(2.6.38-999-generic_2.6.38-999.201101281114_amd64), and found that the
issue persists. The ACPI functions were not enabled in the latest kernel
and the battery was still not
I have the same problem on my Toshiba Satellite L650-BT2N23. So far I
have tried Ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10, in addition to other
distros such as OpenSuSE, Fedora and Mandriva. I have also tried
rebuilding some of the older Kernels with the 'copy_dsdt' patch
described here
