From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 20 13: 0: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730BC14C09 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:00:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00700; Thu, 20 May 1999 12:57:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905201957.MAA00700@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Michael Haro Cc: Warner Losh , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm reports wrong remaining battery life In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 PDT." <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:57:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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