[ACPI-sppt] battery AE_TIME problems

I am having problems getting ACPI to detect my battery (see dmesg 
below), it seems to be something to do with the embedded controler.

I've just built my kernel (2.4.21) again with ACPI debug but I'm not 
sure what to do next!


dmesg
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Linux version 2.4.21DEBUG (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon 
Jul 21 17:49:20 BST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e800 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000009e800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000def0000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000def0000 - 000000000defb000 (ACPI data)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000defb000 - 000000000df00000 (ACPI NVS)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000df00000 - 000000000e000000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
224MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 57344
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 53248 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                      ) @ 0x000f6ee0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD    RSDT   01540.00000) @ 0x0def78bf
ACPI: FADT (v001 SiS    650      01540.00000) @ 0x0defaf8c
ACPI: DSDT (v001 Clevo       650 01540.00000) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro idebus=66
ide_setup: idebus=66
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2390.343 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4771.02 BogoMIPS
Memory: 223452k/229376k available (1762k kernel code, 5468k reserved, 
729k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU:     After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021212
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
  tbxface-0099 [03] Acpi_load_tables      : ACPI Tables successfully 
acquired
Parsing all Control 
Methods:...................................................................................................................
Table [DSDT] - 414 Objects with 40 Devices 115 Methods 11 Regions
ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c03b68fc
evxfevnt-0074 [04] Acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode 
successful
    evgpe-0263: *** Info: GPE Block0 defined as GPE0 to GPE15
    evgpe-0263: *** Info: GPE Block1 defined as GPE16 to GPE31
Executing all Device _STA and_INI 
methods:........................................
40 Devices found containing: 40 _STA, 1 _INI methods
Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package 
initialization:.....................................................................
Initialized 7/11 Regions 5/5 Fields 33/33 Buffers 24/24 Packages (414 nodes)
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 23)
evregion-0323: *** Error: Handler for [Embedded_control] returned AE_TIME
  psparse-1103: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._STA] 
(Node cde28a28), AE_TIME
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 
'acpi=off'
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
schedule_task(): keventd has not started
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP0] (on-line)
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (50 C)
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