[laptop-discuss] Dell Latitude D620 / Battery Status

[Phi Tran]

I just checked your laptop and it uses the battery type SBS
(Smart Battery System).  Right now we only support the Control Method
Battery.  frkit will not help either since it doesn't support SBS also.

Phi

Justin Harris wrote:
> Just installed SXCE b91 on my Latitude D620.  I attempted to add the "Battery Charge Monitor" applet to the panel but it reports that HAL is not detecting any batteries.  I confirmed this with lshal.  I did find info about the ftkirt <a href=http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/power/>here</a> but it's suggesting > b63 should have the driver support included.  Any suggestions appreciated.<br> Thanks.
> <br><br>
> 
> # lshal -l | grep battery<br>
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/acpi_drv_0_battery1_0'<br>
>   battery.present = false  (bool)<br>
>   info.category = 'battery'  (string)<br>
>   solaris.devfs_path = '/pseudo/acpi_drv at 0:battery1'  (string)<br>
>   info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pseudo/acpi_drv_0_battery1_0'  (string)<br>
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