https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16020





--- Comment #4 from Brian Hutsell <[email protected]>  2010-05-22 05:11:29 ---
Thanks.  There is a new BIOS for my machine....but before I install it, we
should probably finish addressing this problem more generally.  Once I install
the new BIOS, my problem might be gone, but other people's issues will remain. 
One bug per person affected isn't very efficient.

Under Windows, my battery appears to be detected just fine.  Under Linux, it
isn't.  Both Windows and Linux are booting on the same BIOS.  I have a hack
("cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/state >& /dev/null") which works for discovering my
battery properly after boot.  Could a similar sort of fallback-mechanism be put
into the boot sequence to mitigate the undesirable behavior in the event that
the BIOS has this bug?


Here is some evidence that this issue is broader than my case:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617529
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg187316.html

And potentially:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg339104.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585890
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2010-02/msg01472.html


Opinions?

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