From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 20 13: 0:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE9314F3A for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA66530; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:58:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA07302; Thu, 20 May 1999 13:59:05 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199905201959.NAA07302@harmony.village.org> To: Michael Haro Subject: Re: apm reports wrong remaining battery life Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 PDT." <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> References: <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> <19990518162300.A26935@area51.fremont.ca.us> <199905190027.SAA79997@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 13:59:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> Michael Haro writes: : Any idea how hard ACPI would be to implement? Where can I find : out more about ACPI? ACPI takes a while to implement. One must interpret AML in order to do it right, which is likely the hardest part. There has been some work done to read values from ACPI, but the battery charge and the rate of discharge are not "static" information and are unavailable, at least on the VAIO, without running a small AML script. There is a pointer from the MS site to the acpi stuff, but I don't recall off the top of my head where it is... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message