ACPI : My battery is definitely dead?

sentenza · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 30

Hi,

Using gentoo since 1 month on my laptop (Asus s8600), i've tried to use acpi to get more offline power...
It didn't really satisfied me, but didn't break really anything... That waht i thought : When pluging off while using the system, my computer shuted down!

I thought: "Just a little bug...", but when i restarted my computer with an APM kernel, i discovered that i got the same problem and a look at /proc show me that the battery is charged -1 % !!!

I think that the internal battery registers have been dommaged in some manner, so i wonder if i could get register from another battery and apply them on mine...

Has anyone experienced something similar?
Any idea to get my battery back?

oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Probably your laptop's "standard" ACPI isn't supported. I have the same problem (with the battery registering at -1%) on my laptop, see sig. I haven't tried the 2.5 series of kernels, but if you want to risk it, give that a try.
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sentenza · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 30

Thanks for your reply.

I'm gone try it, but actually, even w2k has this problem. The charge led light up every 5-10 minutes during 10s like if charging, but if i unplug the power, bang!

Before using acpi under Linux, my autonomy was 2 hours 30 minutes (10 days ago), that why i think that perhaps some registers in the battery are broken.

Do you experience the same problems with M$ windows?