Toshiba L640 Battery Issue with Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by Rajkumar

Hi,

I have Toshiba Satellite L640 and Ubuntu 11.10 installed on it.

But Ubuntu is not recognizing the batteries. I have 6 batteries installed. Even Ubuntu 11.04 did not recognize the batteries.

Please help me resolve this problem.

Because of this problem, I am not able to work on the laptop using battery. It does not hibernate on low batteries. Instead abruptly switches off.

Rajkumar B

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Are there any bugs reported?
Have you reporteda bug? You can do this by running:

ubuntu-bug acpi

Do you have the latest BIOS for the system?

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#2

While we use the acpi source package to mark questions as affecting ACPI, actual ACPI functionality is usually contained in the kernel (the acpi package is just a user interface to display info, see http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/acpi), so this command should instead be used to report bugs about it:

ubuntu-bug linux

Also, before reporting this or other bugs in Ubuntu, please read this carefully (if you haven't already):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

After reporting the bug, it's a good idea to link it to this question (use "Link existing bug" here on this question page). However, your bug report should be complete and self-contained; it should not be necessary for Ubuntu developers to refer to this question in order to fully understand and appreciate your bug.

If you have already reported this as a bug against acpi in Ubuntu rather than linux in Ubuntu then you can change the package from acpi to Linux and then run

apport-collect BUGNUMBER

where BUGNUMBER is replaced by the bug number (that will attach the missing information that would have been attached had it been reported against linux in Ubuntu originally).

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#3

In bug 871594, Brad Figg's automated bot has requested that you test to see if this bug still occurs with the latest kernel available in Oneiric. If you are at all unsure how to do this, or need help, please feel free to ask here about how to do that (or to ask in the bug, if you prefer), and I'll offer assistance.

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Rajkumar (brajkumar) said :
#4

Yes please help me how to test it with the latest kernel / update the kernel to the latest.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Rajkumar (brajkumar) said :
#6

Thanks. I updated to the latest kernel. But still it does not work.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#7

You can post in bug 871594 indicating that you have also tested it with the latest kernel and that it does not work. (Make sure to specify the package version, and to indicate that you tested it with the kernel provided in the Ubuntu repositories and not the upstream kernel, as currently testing is being done with the upstream kernel, and it would be bad to confuse the two.)

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sarath.s (sarath-s009) said :
#8

http://techinterplay.com/fix-toshiba-battery-issue-linux.html

check this link and work on that,it had worked for me.

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