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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Cc: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: acpiconf shows 100%, but laptop switches off
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:16:41AM +0200, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote:
> >Design capacity:        1 mAh
> >Last full capacity:     1 mAh
> 
> Those are obviously bogus values. Your battery quite likely is actually 
> dead and provides 20 minutes of run-time only. But since its capacity is 
> not being reported properly via ACPI for some reason, FreeBSD has no way 
> of knowing that.
> 
> - Bartosz

Thanks. I wonder whether ACPI is working correctly
at all. What other things can I check?

Many thanks
Anton


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