On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:33:05 +0100, Matteo Giani wrote: (...)
> the only problem is, my battery seems not to generate any events (i > checked with acpi_listen), except when plugging/unplugging from AC > power. in particular, it doesn't generate any event when it's > charging/discharging (even at very low levels). Does it work when the charging/discharging events are triggered directly by Gnome? (e.g., if you tell the battery icon on the systray to be visible just on charge/discharge). > since those events are created by the kernel ( i'm using a vanilla > 2.6.32-5, the battery module is auto loaded) and since the status of the > battery (in /sys/....BAT0) is indeed updated every 30 s (or so), the > questions are: > > 1) how do i force the kernel produce those events? is there a way? > 2) shoud i consider an upgrade of the bios? > 3) what about other laptops? do anybody share this problem? I guess the events should be automatically detected by the kernel. If they're not, maybe something is broken (DSDT tables, ACPI BIOS...). Do you have loaded "eeepc_laptop" module? :-? I would also post this message into Debian eeepc devel mailing list, it's quite possible you can hit more replies on this matter in there: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.02.19.22.48...@gmail.com