ACPI: SBS in linux-2.6.18-rc1 - Works for me!

Hello!

I've tested linux-2.6.18-rc1 with Smart Battery System enabled. It works for my Acer Extensa 3002 WLMi. No compile errors or bugs at first sight.

Perhaps there should be some logic in the configuration to disable the ac and battery modules. They are not needed if SBS is active.

Is it possible to load sbs and i2c-ec automatically together with the other ACPI modules? On my Debian system I had to load the modules via /etc/modules.conf.

Regards,
Berthold

That's good to hear!

I use a similar approach (for the 'old style' SBS) in /etc/rc.local:

/sbin/modprobe -r battery
/sbin/modprobe -r ac
/sbin/modprobe i2c-acpi-ec
/sbin/modprobe acpi-sbs

W.r.t. enabling/disabling ac&battery when sbs is selected: I'm not so sure if that would be a good idea. You build a kernel with modules, and at some later stage it is selected which modules will be actually be used.

-- Johan

Hello!

If you use the acpid to manage your ACPI events, please take a look at /etc/default/acpid:

# Specify modules to load on acpid's startup
# MODULES may be uncommented to load "none", contain the string "all"

 # to load all acpi related modules or simply a space seperated list
 # of modules to be probed.
 MODULES="all"

BTW, even if I don't know anything about SBS, I guess it automatically loads i2c-ec as it depends on it.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

This is it. Thanks for the hint.

Regards,
Berthold