[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#470618: Bug#470618: hal: Battery bay not detected on a laptop running with disconnected battery

[Michael Biebl]

Daniele Benucci wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.10+git20080301-1
> Severity: important
> 
> When a laptop is powered on without a battery inserted, hal does not detect the battery bay, so power managers can't suspect the computer supports a 
> battery and consequently disabling battery-powered related options in their interface.
> Moreover, inserting the battery later requires a restart of the hal daemon (and of the power manager applet) to have the battery recognized.
> May this bug be related to the recently introduced patch to fix the reporting of two batteries, since sysfs does not provide informations about battery when 
> it's disconnected, while /proc does (in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state)?
> 

If sysfs is not updated, then that is a kernel bug.

Michael

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