[wellylug] Unable to read battery status SUSE 9.3

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrej [mailto:andrej at paradise.net.nz] 
> Sent: Friday, 7 October 2005 5:00 p.m.
> To: chipomho at xtra.co.nz; Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Unable to read battery status SUSE 9.3
> 
> 
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:36, Chipomho wrote:
> Hi Chipomho,
> 
> Interesting name, btw.
> > I have my Acer laptop running SUSE 9.3,
> > everything seems to work fine except the system cannot read the 
> > remaining charge, the system can read all other battery 
> parameters. i 
> > have tried the suse forums but nobody gave me a solution. 
> how should i 
> > solve this problem? anyone?
> And in addition to Davids response:
> 
> In notebooks and ACPI a wonky BIOS often causes problems,
> not all manufacturers make fully compliant BIOSes but then 
> supply windows-drivers to compensate for that.  I've had 
> cases of IBM Thinkpad and Compaq EVOs with faulty BIOS,
> and problems with linux went away after a firmware upgrade.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrej

And Acer build the IBM stuff (the low end stuff anyway) so your experience
with the IBM bios might not be too far off the mark with the Acer
Peter