Bug 449332

Summary:	Battery can not be detected on dell d620 laptop
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nikos Charonitakis <nikosx>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	kernel-maint
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Description Nikos Charonitakis 2008-06-02 08:39:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Battery icon is missing from top panel. Power manager thinks that laptop is on
ac power. No sign that is a battery connected. Actually there is a battery and
it works for nearly a hour if laptop is disconnected from ac power.
i tried to see what acpitool reports about battery and it also reports nothing...
This battery is about 2 years old and can hold about 30% of the power initially
designed to hold.
This problem appeared today, when i first installed fedora 9 the battery was
detected.

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Comment 1 Patrice Dumas 2008-10-11 14:39:04 UTC

Is it still true? I may recalling things wrongly, but at some point only 
the new acpi interface was in kernel, now both are there. So maybe it 
works now. Also acpitool in rawhide should work with both interfaces.

Comment 2 Nikos Charonitakis 2008-10-11 15:30:22 UTC

yes is still true with fedora 10 Beta.
Maybe battery is broken -it still holds for an hour or little more- but i think it should be detected 

btw 
laptop is dell d620

Comment 3 Patrice Dumas 2008-10-11 17:58:10 UTC

Then this is likely to be a lower level issue. Resetting component 
to the kernel.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 01:21:05 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 15:49:33 UTC

Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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