Klaptopdaemon / Battery Monitor

[Derek Broughton]

Rick Knight wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Rick Knight wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Here's the actual content of the files in /proc/acpi/battery...
>>>
>>> root at rick-laptop:~# grep -r "" /proc/acpi/battery/*
>>> /proc/acpi/battery/C170/alarm:present:                 no
>>> /proc/acpi/battery/C170/state:present:                 no
>>> /proc/acpi/battery/C170/info:present:                 no
>>> /proc/acpi/battery/C171/alarm:alarm:                   unsupported
>>>     
>>
>> Ah-hah!  How many batteries do you actually have?  This claims there are
>> two, but one's missing.
>>   
>>> It looks like the battery has been detected.
>>>     
>>
>> "The battery" - your battery is C171 but this odd notification of C170
>> seems
>> to be causing problems.  I know I've seen something about this...
>>   
> I have just the one battery and there is NO second slot for an
> additional battery. Could C170 be the bios battery?

No, ACPI doesn't know about that.  It's definitely an ACPI error (actually
probably in the DSDT - and don't ask me what that stands for, I've long
since forgotten - in the BIOS.  A newer BIOS _could_ help.
-- 
derek