Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:57:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm reports wrong remaining battery life Message-ID: <199905201957.MAA00700@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 PDT." <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us>
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> > It is a "bug" in the VAIO's bios. It always says that the low cap > > battery lasts three hours. It doesn't bother to do drain based > > battery life calculations in the numbers it returns from the BIOS. To > > get better numbers (like the ones that are on the power panel > > application), FreeBSD would have to support ACPI. > > Any idea how hard ACPI would be to implement? Where can I find > out more about ACPI? Reasonably. www.acpi.org -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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