[Pm-utils] No battery info after suspend

[Don Harden]

Hi Holger,

Yes,  I do have the latest the BIOS.
No,  reloading the battery module does not restore the 
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/files

Don
 

Holger Macht wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 15:26 -0500, Don Harden wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have the following:
>>   HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with an Intel Core2 Duo T9400 and 4 GB of RAM
>>    Fedora 10  2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.x86_64
>>    pm-utils-1.2.2.1-2.fc10
>>    hal-0.5.12-14.20081027git.fc10
>>
>> Everything runs great including suspending, hibernating and resuming except that when the laptop resumes from a suspend or hibernation there is no battery info:   
>>   {0}duder:/home/don > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/alarm
>>   present:                 no
>>   {0}duder:/home/don > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
>>   present:                 no
>>   {0}duder:/home/don > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
>>   present:                 no
>>
>> Before a suspend or hibernation  and resume the battery info is as expected:  
>>   {0}duder:/home/don/bin > cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info                                                
>>   present:                 yes                                                                             
>>   design capacity:         5100 mAh                                                                        
>>   last full capacity:      4800 mAh                                                                        
>>   battery technology:      rechargeable                                                                    
>>   design voltage:          14400 mV                                                                        
>>   design capacity warning: 240 mAh                                                                         
>>   design capacity low:     144 mAh                                                                         
>>   capacity granularity 1:  264 mAh                                                                         
>>   capacity granularity 2:  3780 mAh                                                                        
>>   model number:            Primary                                                                         
>>   serial number:                                                                                           
>>   battery type:            Lion                                                                            
>>   OEM info:                Hewlett-Packard      
>>
>>
>> It does not matter if the laptop is running on AC power or the battery
>>
>> Booting with every combination of turning acpid on or off and turning the pci=noapci  kernel flag on or off  has no effect.
>>
>> I spent a good deal of time Googling and searching the pm-utils archives but found no solution.
>>
>> I've also tried the suggestions on the HAL Quirk site, http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/index.html  but still no joy.
>>
>> Any ideas to get my battery info after a resume?
>>     
>
> Does unloading->loading the battery module after suspend cure the
> problem? Do you have the latest BIOS for your machine installed?
>
> Regards,
>  Holger
>
>   

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Don Harden                       harden at Gsu.EDU
Department of Chemistry          564 NSC
Georgia State University         ph:  (404) 413 5555
Atlanta, Ga. 30302-4098          fax: (404) 413 5505 

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