Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:49:01 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ENXIOing non-present battery Message-ID: <5484BD3D.3030605@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmokzdep71ty_ctvAEQSDvCsOQj15wQ8p96%2B3fCBtr8dvYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <54840781.70603@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmokzdep71ty_ctvAEQSDvCsOQj15wQ8p96%2B3fCBtr8dvYg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/07/14 08:03, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Wait - so it reports a battery with 0% in it, but not that it's not present? It reports all zeroes: Not Present, 0% power, 0V, 0mA design capacity, etc. > How's this work on other systems? KDE on Linux doesn't lose its mind > if the second battery is totally flat. Good question. I'll download an Ubuntu image and find out. Given that KDE gets this information via hald, it's possible that hald's linux code has a workaround for this though -- the battery-status-reading code is entirely separate between FreeBSD and Linux. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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