Bug#609846: Toshiba Satellite battery not recognized by acpi

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

severity 609846 important
tags 609846 + upstream
forwarded 609846 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15707
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Taylor Brown wrote:

> The bug still exists (no output from `acpi -b`, no gui battery status)
> in version '2.6.32-45' of squeeze kernel package
> 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64'.
>
> Passing 'acpi=copy_dsdt' makes no difference.

Thanks for the update.

> Battery status works after overriding dsdt, recompiling kernel
> following these steps:
> http://nearlyalaugh.com/2011/08/override-dsdt/

Oh, nice!  Please test a 3.x.y kernel from sid, squeeze-backports, or
experimental.  The only packages from outside squeeze that should be
needed for this test are the kernel image itself, linux-base, and
initramfs-tools.

If we're lucky then v3.0-rc1~12^2~3 (ACPICA: Execute an orphan _REG
method under the EC device, 2011-04-13) fixed it.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan