[ABANDONED] Aspire One - Battery not recognised

[azra]

I don't 
I guess there would be no great performance difference, but it would be nice to know when your battery time runs out and to have the AA1 shut down properly: see my screenshots above, it all seems to be linked to acpi not working on the AA1-Pardus combo.

[Mhmrcs]

I hope it gets fixed in 2008.2, have you filed a bug report?

[azra]

I hope it gets fixed in 2008.2, have you filed a bug report?

There is already a bug filed, but in Turkish, so not sure if exactly the same....

http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8343

Looks like it though.

[Mhmrcs]

I think you're write Azra, only thing to do now is wait for it to be worked through by the developers...

[Sertse]

I've been looking through the bug reports again, I noticed the the page linked to earlier now says "fixed".

Can you confirm azra?

http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8343

When I asked about it on IRC...

<patacute> Sertse it has been solved
<kobzeci> sertse it is about the kernel panic
<havan> Sertse: yes, last comment says that it works if he deletes the "quiet" parameter at boot time (in grub)


My rough understanding of the bug report was that he encountered a kernel panic problem when booting Pardus, which was solved by having a no acpi parameter. But this gives creates the Battery monitor error.

One of the comment said that if the quiet parameter is removed, it would be ok. Just removing the quiet parameter I think.

I posted in the bug report for a clarification. Hope the respond

Also from Pardus mailing list:

"[Pardus-devel] 2008-test ACK/NACK - Update Details"

= Package : alsa-driver  [Ozan Çağlayan <ozan_at_pardus.org.tr>]
======================================================================
* Ver.: 1.0.18a_20081203, Rel.: 38, Type: None
* Ozan Çağlayan <ozan_at_pardus.org.tr> [2008-12-03]

   Version bump to latest nightly snapshot which fixes some Dell laptop
regressions.

* Ver.: 1.0.18a, Rel.: 37, Type: None
* Ozan Çağlayan <ozan_at_pardus.org.tr> [2008-11-12]

   - Version bump to the latest stable 1.0.18,
   - Fixes eeepcs shutdown problem (Fixes #7989),
   - Fixes distortioned sound problem of Compaq Presario, (Fixes #8306).

Bug 7989 is http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=7989 , it is about a sound problem, making the eeepc not shutdown completely. Ask Williem or tuxedup , they were discussing it in http://worldforum.pardus-linux.nl/index.php?topic=1986.msg8934#msg8934

This sounds similar to yours with the AAO...don't know if is the same bug? However the eeepc shutdown fix is now in the test repo...

[azra]

Hey Sertse

Thank you for the follow up, but unfortunately deleting quiet makes no difference..... Unless the acpi needs to be changed to on?

[Sertse]

See Onur's latest reply, explaining it in English

  ------- Comment  #7 From Onur Küçük  2008-12-17 21:06:32  [reply] -------

It is said that only removing the quiet parameter is necessary, as it fixes the
kernel bork, and that there is no need to do "noacpi" for Pardus.

Acpi being off is why the battery isn't being recognised. Removing quiet fixes the kernel panic problem, that you saw when acpi is on. So now you can turn on acpi, and then can see the battery, hopefully. 

[azra]

Sertse

You're a star!  That works!

So the correct grub should have quiet deleted and acpi=on. Now the battery status is recognised and the AAO shuts down! Thank you ever so much!

Yipee!