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Date:      Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:11:48 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ENXIOing non-present battery
Message-ID:  <5484C294.6030104@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <5484BD3D.3030605@freebsd.org>
References:  <54840781.70603@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmokzdep71ty_ctvAEQSDvCsOQj15wQ8p96%2B3fCBtr8dvYg@mail.gmail.com> <5484BD3D.3030605@freebsd.org>

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On 07/12/2014 22:49, Colin Percival wrote:
> 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.

Or that HAL is no longer used at all in most Linux-based OSes...

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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