Bug 64079 - apm doesn't report battery charge level on Dell C810
Summary: apm doesn't report battery charge level on Dell C810
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: apmd
Version: skipjack-beta2
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-04-25 06:08 UTC by Brian G. Anderson
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-05-02 03:56:00 UTC
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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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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
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