Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But battery state is not recognized. It says always "running on AC
> > Power" and no battery symbol is displayed.
> >
> > Can someone please help or verify this behaviour?
>
> A recent upgade to acpi caused it to stop loading all the acpi modules
> (search the debian-laptop list). When you do 'acpi' at the command
> line, do you get a batter reading, or an error about the battery
> module not being present? If the latter, you need to load the
> 'battery' module into the kernel ('modprobe battery'). If that works,
> add it (and any other modules you need, such as 'button, thermal',
> etc) to '/etc/modules' so it (they) will load on startup.
The bug is trivial, a typo in the /etc/init.d/acpid script, and you can
fix it yourself. Look for line 32 (indent same as original):
MODPROBE_OPTIONS="$MODPROBE_OPTIONS -Q"
and change the -Q option with -q
Regards,
Andrei
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