Vaio PCG-XG38 needs to be included in list dmi_scan.c for vaio laptop's swap_apm_power in minutes. It has the same bug than the others in the list. Once thats fixed, apm -m shows more or less the correct remaining time. Switching to acpi, CPU Freq problem Current and maximum Fequency are interchanged and system boots with low speed once trottle control is activated in Bios. According to dmidecode, Max Speed = 300MHZ, Current = 700MHZ, according to /proc/cpuinfo ~ 182MHZ, hmm wonder which one is right? ACPI Battery status, according to gnome batt_applet (fedora core 1) the battery is never charging (in apm is does) while in /proc/battery/BAT1/state the Battery is always in charging... strange again this is already the second battery with this problem. The Battery charging itself, seems to work fine. However once the battery is full (applet = 100%) it starts fluctuating after a while as if there is a continous discharge, charge cycle, down to 97+% than back to 100% down to 97+% back to 100% and so on and on and on. Perhaps some values are misinterpreted? During discharge, the laptop looses the the first 10% battery capacity rather fast, then it continues to discharge normal for about 2 hours, once at ~ 5% the laptop can turn of any time. Perhaps related to previous problem?
Created attachment 4045 [details] acpidmp output
Created attachment 4046 [details] dmidecode output
Created attachment 4047 [details] dmesg
Created attachment 4048 [details] cpuinfo
Created attachment 4049 [details] interrupts
Created attachment 4050 [details] lspci
Please limit bug report to a single bug, or at least to a single category of bug. I'm moving this bug report over to the APM category because that is the 1st thing it complains about. If you have additional issues in ACPI mode, then please file a specific ACPI bug. Note, however, that we're not spending any time fixing non-critical issues in 2.4, so the first thing I'll ask you will be to re-test with 2.6.
Created attachment 4272 [details] Patch for 2.4.27 Same problem also exist in 2.4.28 as well as in 2.6 kernels in apm.c, VAIO PCG-XG38 and 39 share the same bios so it should fix it on both ;-)
Any update on this problem please. Thanks.
Since no updates (not mentioning that we are not tracking 2.4 problems here unless it's emergency of some kind :) I am closing the bug.