Bug 80587 - ACPI is unable to show battery status on HP Omnibook 500
Summary: ACPI is unable to show battery status on HP Omnibook 500
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 82123
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Garzik
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks: 79579
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Reported: 2002-12-28 13:06 UTC by Leonid Kanter
Modified: 2013-07-03 02:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:50:43 UTC
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Description Leonid Kanter 2002-12-28 13:06:24 UTC 
Description of problem:

ACPI is unable to show battery status on HP Omnibook 500

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

2.4.20-2.2

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load ospm_battery module
2.see dmesg output
    
Actual results:

ACPI: Battery socket found, battery absent
ACPI: Battery socket found, battery absent
ACPI: Battery socket found, battery absent

Expected results:

One battery is installed and it must be detected
Comment 1 Gerald Teschl 2003-01-03 20:48:28 UTC 
Similar problems on my sony vaio:

ACPI: Battery socket found, battery present
ACPI: Battery socket found, battery present

However, only the first battery is present and the second absent.
Moreover, the values reported by /proc/acpi/battery/{1,2} are bogous.

Using a stock 2.4.20 + latest acpi patch works just fine (with both
one and two batteries present).
Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2003-01-06 02:09:43 UTC 
When I try doing "modprobe ospm_battery" on my Dell Lattitude C640, I get a
kernel Oops (bug 81124) and an empty /proc/acpi/battery/
Comment 3 Aleksey Nogin 2003-01-06 02:17:36 UTC 
Oh, and another thing - Fn-F3 that normally shows the battery status (under grub
and APM kernel) stops working (just does not do anything) as soon as the ACPI
kernel is loaded...
Comment 4 Jeff Garzik 2003-01-17 21:18:36 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82123 ***
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:43 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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