On a Acer TM3200 booting in emergency mode will not trigger anything since i2c_ec is pulled in later. In any case, emergency-booting and doing a manual 'modprobe i2c_ec' will produce the uninitialized parent message. I guess the i2c-bus is not initialized since a following 'modprobe sbs' returns after a few seconds but fails to produce any results. No kernel-message, no /proc/acpi/battery entry. So the i2c-bus is not working. Here is what I can see of the embedded controller:
$ cat /proc/acpi/embedded_controller/EC0/info gpe: 0x1d ports: 0x66, 0x62 use global lock: no -- Kernel 2.6.20-13 acpi bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/96480 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs