[ltp] x40 extended battery seems to not work under ubuntu 6.10

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Jaime Davila wrote:
> This added battery has a led on its right side. I imagine the led is 
> supposed to light up if everything is OK, but it is staying off right 
> now, even after booting up with the battery in place. I remember it used 
> to light up. Maybe it stopped lighting up when I upgraded from dapper 
> (6.06) to edgy? I am not certain of that. I sent a copy of this message 
> to the ubuntu user list, but I've seen no reply.

Does the battery work in MS Windows on your machine?

> I've read about package tp_smapi. I don't have it installed. Do I need 
> to, under kernel "2.6.17-10-386?

Yes, but it won't help with your problem.

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  Henrique Holschuh