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Subject: Re: battery state
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On 15/08/2012 10:40, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>wrote:
>> For a while now "acpiconf -i0" always shows the battery state that
>> was correct when booting the system. It's never updated.
>>
>> snip
>
> It wont solve the problem, but does the sysctl hw.acpi.battery.time update
> correctly?

Thanks for the fast reply, right now it shows -1 (the system was plugged
in during boot).

I just unplugged it and it still shows -1:
> sysctl hw.acpi.battery
hw.acpi.battery.life: 99
hw.acpi.battery.time: -1
hw.acpi.battery.state: 0
hw.acpi.battery.units: 2
hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5

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