[ltp] no /proc/acpi/battery entry after ultrabay hotswap

Shem Multinymous linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:50:35 -0400


On 7/6/07, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> when I boot with the DVD drive in the Ultrabay, and swap it with the
> Ultrabay battery, I don't see a /proc/acpi/battery entry for the second
> battery. I reloaded the ACPI battery module but it didn't help.
>
> This is a T23 with Kernel 2.6.20. What else could I try to see the
> Ultrabay battery in /proc/acpi/battery?

I don't have a solution for /proc/acpi/battery, but you can get the
same information and more, for both batteries, through tp_smapi
(http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/tp_smapi).

  Shem