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	Johnx	2008-06-12 , 10:25
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Originally Posted by hans-castorp

how is power management being handled? It seems ACPI isn't present, is this correct? Would it be possible to compile it?

Is it possible to check battery status without ACPI?

Actually, the tablets don't use ACPI at all. From what I can tell, ACPI is mostly used on x86 machines (and maybe PPC Macs?). In the case of our tablets power management is handled differently. Most of this is handled in the kernel, but from what I can tell, in some cases we must tell the kernel to activate that power management, such as the case for turning off the backlight. I have more information up on power management on the wiki: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...p?title=Debian . If anyone else has more info about turning on the bits of power management *or* would like more clarification, I'd be happy to help.

For checking your battery status, download kcbatt from here: http://mrrau.dyndns.org:23280/n800/kcbatt/?S=A

-John

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