Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:46:08 +0100
From: Charles Bueche <charles@bueche.ch>
To: David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ACPI battery info failure after some period of time, 2.6.3-x
 and up
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Hi,

I have had this problem (or at least very similar) since 2.6.0. the
-test worked fine.

I run 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 on a Dell Inspiron 8600

Charles

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:29:01 -0500
David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org> wrote:

> powerix root # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
> present:                 yes
> ERROR: Unable to read battery status
> 
> powerix root # dmesg -c
>     ACPI-0279: *** Error: Looking up [BST0] in namespace,
>     AE_ALREADY_EXISTS ACPI-1120: *** Error: Method execution failed
>     [\_SB_.BAT0._BST] 
> (Node e7bd7680), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> 
> powerix root # uname -r
> 2.6.4-rc1
> 
> This has been going on since about 2.6.3-rc something.  Some while
> after reading the /proc files, the ability to read the battery
> information gets munged.
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