Re: ACPI battery module broken?

[Brian Connolly <linus literatigroup com>]

Dan,

And where does one add "acpi=on" to the kernel parameters?

best,

brian

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 19:09, Dan Goodes wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 law redhat com wrote:
> 
> > In message <1069277483 5150 1 camel littlePiet>, Peter Boy writes:
> >  >If I activate ACPI on my IBM Thinkpad T40p, the gnome battery applet
> >  >shows up with 0%.
> >  >
> >  >If I check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state I get:
> >  >
> >  >present:                 yes
> >  >ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> >  >
> >  >Is this usual for the current status of acpi support or is there an
> > Well, the battery status works on my HP/Compaq 25xx using ACPI.
> 
> FWIW, it also works fine on my Compaq Presario 2100, out-of-the-box 
> (almost, obviously had to add acpi=on to the kernel parameters)
> 
> -Dan
> 
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