Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] battery alarm unsupported on macbook pro rev3?

[Steffen S. <pe...@gm...>]

On 080406 at 22:53, Chris Nolan wrote:
> Steffen Schulz wrote:
>> So the goal is to get the laptop into s2ram without polling the
>> battery status..
> "[If the battery doesn't support alarms...] the ACPI specification  
> requires the OS to poll the battery to check its remaining capacity".
>
> Certainly on my Macbook 3,1 under Fedora, the laptop shuts down when the  
> battery reaches a critical level.

"...It appears that Linux does not yet do this."


So its a missing hardware feature. Unbelievable that neither the
battery module nor acpid or laptop-mode can handle this problem..


Thanks for the info!  *running yet another deamon*

/steffen
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