Distribution: Fedora Core 1 Hardware Environment: Notebook Toshiba A10 127 Problem Description: The /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state not show values, show this error: #cat /proc/acpi/baterry/BAT1/state present: yes ERROR: Unable to read battery status Attach dmesg file and another error showed in kernel messages:
Created attachment 1970 [details] dmesg file dmesg file showed error.
ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BUFF] in namespace, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT1._BST] (Node cee8e740), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS please try 2.6.3 -- we fixed an ACPI parameter issue that may help this. also, did any previous releases work? thanks, -Len
Not work... root@marcusg:~# uname -a Linux marcusg.house 2.6.3-bk6 #5 Tue Feb 24 12:23:07 BRT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux root@marcusg:~# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info present: yes design capacity: 47520 mWh last full capacity: 43902 mWh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 10800 mV design capacity warning: 885 mWh design capacity low: 0 mWh capacity granularity 1: 10 mWh capacity granularity 2: 10 mWh model number: G71C00037610 serial number: 1400042160 battery type: Li-ION OEM info: root@marcusg:~# cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state present: yes ERROR: Unable to read battery status
Same problem here! Toshiba A20 Laptop
please help testing with patches mentioned at http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2066#c6
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2066 ***