Battery doesn't work after Hoary upgrade

[carsten lange]

>Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:40:42 -0700
>From: "Ian M." <mcleod9 at gmail.com>
>Subject: Battery doesn't work after Hoary upgrade
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com

>
>After upgrading my laptop to Hoary 5.04 the battery stopped working.
>Basically, the computer is fine when plugged in, but evidently no
>power is getting to the machine, as it turns off when unplugged.
>
>This is even stranger because dmesg shows the battery as being present
>and the battery applet shows it as being charged 100% (when plugged
>in, of course). I've tried various lapic/acpi configs while booting.
>On shutdown it says the battery state is ok.
>

Hallo, Ian,

there are several errors about acpi and battery so I would suggest to
install a new kernel including the appropriate moduls.

Are you using the default hoary-kernel? What laptop are you using?

/carsten.

>ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
>    ACPI-0169: *** Error: No object was returned from
>[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.LPT_._STA] (Node df3a1500), AE_NOT_EXIST
>    ACPI-0169: *** Error: No object was returned from
>[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.COM1._STA] (Node df3a1200), AE_NOT_EXIST


>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
>shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
>pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
>pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5

>ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
>    ACPI-0169: *** Error: No object was returned from
>[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.LPT_._STA] (Node df3a1500), AE_NOT_EXIST
>    ACPI-0169: *** Error: No object was returned from
>[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC_.COM1._STA] (Node df3a1200), AE_NOT_EXIST
>ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
>ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
>ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
>ibm_acpi: ec object not found