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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:04:31 -0700
From:      Geoff <gjukema@jukeware.com>
To:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Acer Aspire 3620 - battery life, power management
Message-ID:  <448B25CF.40900@jukeware.com>

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get my battery life to work, as well as other power 
management stuff like auto-shutdown/suspend, etc. I've been searching 
for a while, and read through 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html.

I looked for a BIOS update, and there wasn't one on the Asus website for 
my notebook.

I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (installed via PCBSD). Output of uname -a :
FreeBSD PCBSD.localhost 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 22 
08:46:45 PDT 2006     boot@PCBSD.localhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  
i386

Here's the output from acpconf -i0:

    Design capacity:        0 mWh   
    Last full capacity:        0 mWh
    Technology:                 primary (non-rechargeable)
    Design voltage:           0 mV
    Capacity (warn):          0 mWh
    Capacity (low):             0 mWh
    Low/warn granularity:   0 mWh
    Warn/full granularity:     0 mWh
    Model number:
    Serial number:
    Type:
    OEM info:
        State:                            not present
        Voltage:                       12576 mV

I've uploaded the file from acpidump, dmesg.boot and the output from 
compiling iasl to : http://www.jukeware.com/acer_aspire_3620.tar

I get these messages all the time (included in the dmesg.boot also):


    ACPI-0501: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned 
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
    ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed 
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node 0xc477c900), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
    ACPI-0239: *** Error: Method execution failed 
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._STA] (Node 0xc477c900), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE

Anyway, it would be great if there was a work-around patch that I could 
apply to my asl file that could get the battery and power management 
stuff working, similar to 
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-acpi/2005-November/002193.html.

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help solve this.

Thank very much for your help,
Geoff




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