Dear list, after installing Debian on an old IBM Thinkpad everything seems to be working fine, except that the battery state is constant, i.e. it is read once correctly at bootup and doesn't change afterwards. On the other hand, the ACPI system does recognise when I plug/unplug the AC (which sets /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state to off-line, but does not change /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state from charging to discharging). Is this a problem with the BIOS, or is there a possibility to set a polling interval for the battery, similar to the one found at /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/polling_frequency, that just has a ridiculously high default setting?
Here is a copy of the ACPI lines of dmesg (if it is of help, I can attach the complete syslog/dmesg); all ACPI stuff is compiled into the kernel, so no module loading: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~@ uname -a Linux muldvarp 2.6.9MULDVARP #10 Sun Jan 2 01:29:25 CET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg|grep ACPI BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS) ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f71a0 ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x07ffaf8f ACPI: FADT (v001 IBM 430BX 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x07fffb65 ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x07fffbd9 ACPI: DSDT (v001 IBM BT2 0x06040000 MSFT 0x01000007) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 9) ACPI: Power Resource [PFNH] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [PFNM] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [PFNL] (off) PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT2] (battery absent) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Fan [FANH] (off) ACPI: Fan [FANM] (off) ACPI: Fan [FANL] (off) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (54 C) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) ACPI wakeup devices: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 --- I'd be very glad if someone can help me. Thanks in advance! Jan Nordholz -- Jan C. Nordholz Erich-Kästner-Str. 39 12619 Berlin 0174 / 33 44 22 5 030 / 240 370 81 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
