Bug 64079

Summary:	apm doesn't report battery charge level on Dell C810
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Brian G. Anderson <bikehead>
Component:	apmd	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Brian G. Anderson 2002-04-25 06:08:07 UTC

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Description of problem:
I have a Dell lattitude c810 with Bios leve A05.  The command 'apm -v' doesn't
report a battery level either when the machine is on battery or when its
charging.  The command 'apm -s' yeilds:

APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.16)
AC off-line

I can use the Fn+F3 (BIOS Battery Viewer) to see the level.

Also when the battery does get low, the machine does show low battery level
messages, but the level says some thing -1 minutes.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start the computer
2.type apm -v
3.
	

Actual Results:  only reports the machine is offline, but not battery level

Additional info:

The battery level doesn't show on Redhat 7.2 either.

Comment 1 Brian G. Anderson 2002-05-02 03:55:56 UTC

Upgrading to BIOS level A07 clears this problem.  I now get proper battery reports.

Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-05-06 15:04:43 UTC

Since it was a BIOS (and not Linux) problem, I'm closing this as NOTABUG