Re: PowerMac7,3 insists it has 0 batteries and no AC power!
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 20:28 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a PowerMac7,3 machine (dual G5 970FX). It does not run Linux
> continously just yet. So I installed anacron as I do for all such
> computers. This is a stock Debian sarge installation (in particular, I
> do not compile my own kernel).
>
> Over the last few weeks I've noticed the dlocate database is always
> out of date....it seems the kernel insists I am running on battery
> power with zero batteries.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> shyamal@turtle:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/anacron start
> Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: deferred while on battery power.
>
> shyamal@turtle:~$ cat /proc/pmu/info
> PMU driver version : 2
> PMU firmware version : 0c
> AC Power : 0
> Battery count : 0
>
> shyamal@turtle:~$ dmesg | grep -i pmu
> via-pmu: Server Mode is disabled
> PMU driver 2 initialized for Core99, firmware: 0c
>
> shyamal@turtle:~$ grep -i pmu /boot/config-2.6.8-power4-smp
> CONFIG_ADB_PMU=y
>
> shyamal@turtle:~$ grep CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK /boot/config-2.6.8-power4-smp
> CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK=y
G5s aren't supposed to turn CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK on ... Yes, the battery/AC
code doesn't work on desktops.
Ben.
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