Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:40:26 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> Subject: Re: battery state Message-ID: <502B6E8A.5080601@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <502B68EA.5040907@daemonic.se> References: <502B5F7D.6000909@bsdforen.de> <CAPS9%2BSv7FgSN=CkNwhzTa_caHA5gVvGZD8HZZ548Qubp_SAF_g@mail.gmail.com> <502B61B8.4040304@bsdforen.de> <CAPS9%2BSsgPHCr2_xaCF637vtj%2B%2BQx7i%2BtjE%2BwYTuotHLL3CWz0Q@mail.gmail.com> <502B68EA.5040907@daemonic.se>
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On 15/08/2012 11:16, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2012-08-15 11:07, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>wrote: >>> 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. >>>>> >>>> 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 >> >> Sounds like there is some acpi-problem then. On my thinkpad it takes maybe >> five seconds for it to go from -1 to an estimate. Also >> hw.acpi.battery.state=0 for me equals "AC plugged in and battery full". > > Just a short "aol". I'm seeing the same issue, also on a HP laptop, a > HP 6910p with a Core2Duo 2.0GHz processor (can't remember the exact > model). It has been this way for as long as I can remember (at least a > year), but I haven't checked into the matter more closely. There was a time when this actually worked for me. I should have reacted instantly when the problem came up, but I had a race car to build ... FSAE. > Are you > running the latest current? I haven't updated in a while, so perhaps > the issue has been resolved... Nay, I stick to the RELENG_ branches. I'll switch to RELENG_10 shortly before a 10.0 release. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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