Acer Travelmate 4000LCi - Newbie
Need some serious help. I am a newbie to linux. I am using Suse 9.3 with Kernel 2.6.11..4-20a on an Acer Travelmate 4000LCi. It uses the smart battery and would realy like to see the status of my battery. it is the only thing I have not been able to do just yet. Everything else seems to be just fine. I could use some help (remember I am a newbie) in getting this done, I want to try Rich Townsends fix but am afraid that all the work i have done to get everything else working would be lost. A step by step would be great, also I have never recompiled a kernel so have no idea where to begin.
Thanks in advance - Bo
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Hi Bo,
If Suse provides for DSDT overriding upon boot (I've heard some rumours on that, but I'm not familiar with Suse) _AND_ someone can provide an augmented DSDT for your particular notebook, it would be as easy as installing a file and rebooting. But that would require assistance of another Travelmate 4000LCi user.
Otherwise, my suggestion would be to consult the Suse mailing lists on how to re-create your current (installed) kernel. When you are able to do that, I'd advise to take Rich Townsends sbs module that implements the classical battery status API.
-- Johan
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Hi Bo,
If Suse provides for DSDT overriding upon boot (I've heard some rumours on that, but I'm not familiar with Suse) _AND_ someone can
Yes, that function is indeed shipped by SUSE. IIRC the handbook mentions how to do it.
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provide an augmented DSDT for your particular notebook, it would be as easy as installing a file and rebooting. But that would require
It's a bit different: Copy new DSDT to a specific location, set ACPI_DSDT="location_of_DSDT" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, run mkinitrd and reboot.
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assistance of another Travelmate 4000LCi user.
Otherwise, my suggestion would be to consult the Suse mailing lists on how to re-create your current (installed) kernel. When you are able to do that, I'd advise to take Rich Townsends sbs module that implements the classical battery status API.
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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