Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:25:15 -0800 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org, lists@stringsutils.com Subject: Re: No APM yet for AMD? Message-ID: <43C2C6AB.5060605@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20060105005441.029835c1.ariff@FreeBSD.org> References: <cone.1135611096.296999.80599.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <63675.24.71.129.36.1135718125.squirrel@imap.sd73.bc.ca> <cone.1135784510.758843.3324.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <200512291412.19476.peter@wemm.org> <cone.1136052558.494842.28540.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20060103155509.GE13887@poupinou.org> <cone.1136308365.970162.45107.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20060103185047.GH13887@poupinou.org> <cone.1136387653.168993.62674.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20060104161842.GK13887@poupinou.org> <20060105005441.029835c1.ariff@FreeBSD.org>
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Ariff Abdullah wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:18:42 +0100 > Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:14:13AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> >>>Bruno Ducrot writes: >>> >>> >>>>>http://public.natserv.net/acpidump.txt >>>> >>>>Well could you try to add this to your /boot/loader.conf: >>>>hw.acpi.osname="Microsoft Windows NT" >>> >>>Done >>> >>> >>> >>>>It's because I want to check what happens if the following ASL is >>>>triggered: >>>> >>>>If (LEqual (SizeOf (\_OS), 0x14)) >>>>{ >>>> BPOL (0x3C) >>>>} >>> >>>Second dump on the same location... different name >>>http://public.natserv.net/acpidump2.txt >>> >>> >>>>That's look like a workaround for Windows NT and that seems to >>>>be related to batteries and AC adapter. >>> >>>Not sure what was supposed to happen after trying the change in >>>loader.conf, but I tried "sysctl -a |grep acpi.bat" and the >>>results are the same as before. >>> >>>hw.acpi.battery.life: -1 >>>hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 >>>hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 >>>hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 >>>hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 >> >>It was a stupid idea, sorry. I will look a little bit more. I >>think I begin to understand what's wrong, but I need to look a >>little bit further. >> >>I also CC to freebsd-acpi@ with a reply-to accordingly. >> > > Few acpi BIOSes does not support _BST (battery status) method, causing > that type of weird sysctl output (since it depends solely on _BST). > Your hope is to use acpiconf(8) i.e acpiconf -i <battery number>. > Unfortunately, acpiconf itself does not display all possible > values. > > Try this patch against usr.sbin/acpi/acpiconf/acpiconf.c > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/acpi/acpiconf.c.diff > > Hopefully you will have the proper output in terms of percentage. > You won't have advance battery status such as remaining time and few > others. This is a limitation for BIOSes without _BST. > > I believe Nate Lawson is the right person to comment on this. I looked at the patch but had a hard time figuring out what the functional changes are. Most of the changes are just using a convenience pointer to see the struct members and some style misformatting of the printf arguments. (The second line of indentation needs to be 4 spaces indented, see style(9)). What part of this patch is just the functional change? -- Nate
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