no battery detected, empty power_supply and acpi directories

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there is no battery detected. there are no forums with the solution. I've edited grub to force acpi and i have nothing listed in proc/acpi/battery or /sys/class/power_supply. i have reinstalled with different distributions, releases, desktop environments, all with no success. kali 2018.1 (LXDE only) is the only kernel(4.14)/distro combination i could get both sound card and wireless card working. no battery detected on any distribution. if you could do me a solid and get past the word "kali" and focus more on the firmware that'd be awesome.

epik ell1401

i am aware of the quality of the laptop. thanks for any assistance.

Probably, but being as how I've searched and experimented for weeks to resolve this issue, I'm not going to pass a chance someone may see it here and not there. — Dave Slash Knoll, Apr 04 '18 at 19:52
Cross-posted at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/435598/no-battery-detected-empty-power-supply-and-acpi-directories/435828 — Rui F Ribeiro, Apr 08 '18 at 11:39

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '18 at 18:04

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i solved this by replacing the intel_cht_int33fe.ko module from different distributions.

the intel_cht_int33fe.ko from lubuntu 17 (kernel 4.13) works fantastically. i also switched TYPEC_FUSB302, CHARGER_BQ24190,and BATTERY_MAX17042 from not set to loadable. it shows the percentage, meter, time remaining to charge/discharge. ErikF i thank you sir for pointing me in the right direction.

answered Apr 05 '18 at 18:04

Dave Slash Knoll

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It would be good if you can submit a bug on kernel bugzilla if the issue is reproducible on vanilla kernels. – 0andriy Apr 08 '19 at 20:08

no battery detected, empty power_supply and acpi directories

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