Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:35:25 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lock up when going to 'economy mode' (battery) Message-ID: <4451715D.30908@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <44513881.8000407@root.org> References: <4451123E.3070105@centtech.com> <44511838.8030904@root.org> <445126FA.4050700@centtech.com> <44513881.8000407@root.org>
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Nate Lawson wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: >> Here's another thing I noticed (unrelated to above): >> >> I booted with the main battery, and had a dvd drive in the option bay. >> Unplug the AC, battery remaining time shows about 4 hours. >> Plug AC back in. >> Then did: >> atacontrol detach ata1 >> and removed the dvd drive. >> Then, I inserted the secondary battery. >> I didn't notice anything (no battery charging, no dmesg info, etc). >> >> I then unplugged the AC, and the battery remaining time shows '-1'. >> >> Hints? > > Battery bay hotplug detection is not yet implemented. If you boot with > the battery in, then do the swap and back, it will work. I have a local > patch that implements it but it's not stable enough to commit. It > handled hotplug of lots of devices, and last I remember hung up on lpt > hotplug. I think iwasaki@ fixed this with his acpi_dock commit. > > Now that acpi_dock has been added to -current, it may make sense to > re-test my patch. Yea, you're right. Works fine when booted with both batteries installed. Thanks for clarifying. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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