Hello,
I have a Acer travelmate 2312. The model doesn't help much as Acer has this uncanny habit of renaming their machines and selling them with slightly different specs in different countries. Anyway...
I am running Ubuntu Breezy and the battery indicator on gnome does not work. It never has. So, I finally decided to look deeper into the problem.
I looked into /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1 and this is what state told me
Code:
linuxlala@sarek:/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1$ cat state
present: yes
ERROR: Unable to read battery status
Wonder why that is. Then I read some more and found that some Acer laptops have a Smart Battery System and it might be because of that.
Is there any way of fixing this? If compiling the kernel, etc. are the only solution, then could I please get a step-by-step here. Something about recompiling the kernel really scares me.
EDIT: I keep running into stuff that says I need to recompile the kernel. Like I said, I need step-by-step here please.