Laptop suggestions please

[Espen Tagestad]

Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> For those laptops, someone provide patches to the DSDT which happens
> to be a generic workaround for OS that do not support yet the acpi smbus
> interface to the EC (and therefore the smart batteries behind this
> smbus).
> 
> See
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbs-linux
> for more information

Do you mean that you'll only have to get the right DSDT to get it 
working? Isn't the DSDT generated on basis of each laptops acpi 
implementation?

Some weeks ago I also got some patches from
Hans Petter Selasky, but I never got them to work as they should. Nate 
Lawson, which is working on the acpi implementation in FreeBSD, has 
gotten them too, but as I understood him on the acpi mailing list he is 
too busy right now to merge them into cvs.

Anyway, I would really appreciate it if someone had a working solution 
on this. Running out of battery all the time is very irritating.

regards,

Espen