From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 20 12:56:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from area51.fremont.ca.us (d60-076.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC52715458 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us) Received: (from mharo@localhost) by area51.fremont.ca.us (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA42135; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mharo) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 -0700 From: Michael Haro To: Warner Losh Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm reports wrong remaining battery life Message-ID: <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> References: <19990518162300.A26935@area51.fremont.ca.us> <199905190027.SAA79997@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905190027.SAA79997@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:27:48PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:27:48PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990518162300.A26935@area51.fremont.ca.us> Michael Haro writes: > : Hi, I noticed that on my Sony VAIO 505tx apm reports 3 hours > : of total life with both the standard and long batteries. Is > : there a way to fix this or is this just a bug in the way the VAIO > : or APM work? > > 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? Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message