[Foresight-distro] Re: Foresight Mobile Editon on my EeePC 701, check 1

[Cesar Cardoso]

The Xandros distro Asus ships with the EeePC (at least the 701) uses an old kernel, 2.6.22 IIRC; looks like most ACPI and battery stuff has been integrated into mainline kernel (module eeepc_laptop.ko).

----- "James Laver" <james.laver at gmail.com> escreveu:

> On 2008-09-25 01:20, "listas at zyakannazio.eti.br"
> <listas at zyakannazio.eti.br>
> wrote:
> 
> > - g-p-m reports battery life unaccurately
> > 
> 
> Whatever crappy linux they shipped on mine also reports battery life
> inaccurately. I did some digging and for a start it doesn't report
> that
> information in a standard, open manner like everyone else, but they
> have to
> do it differently.... *grumble*
> 
> Anyway, what I'm saying is that if they couldn't get an accurate
> battery
> reading, foresight won't either.
> 
> --James

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