From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 26 00:13:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E381065670 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:13:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com (mail-qa0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD528FC12 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:13:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qady23 with SMTP id y23so734530qad.13 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:13:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/UE6egUq5uPXe+jh3z1K23w9UPaAsvbfn/HCvSMR9wk=; b=WWwWMvOlPCcUOoP7Rzx3bZlX9IVDeTKHPh2YTdg2DybSlTdxFBUSMe3rAhab65MmDO cJIqQKH6ZDe5RAje9jTZeSdLaisTY7I7QxJfrhfsJBcYSOIOhG1Wbti7hjAFgaKmmBad Ddr2xsXInmcAESVR2DKodt0+K7U9+NDypAgybDY7VC+wXCHsBg6XzMeLR6JRVeCcSVZI +R7gJdf8I+pGJvlgK83Fs2QCHefYXv3zAwvUXCg6kXDB3KGmbdHHvrC+irgNCbqTuKZX XNwRmETmXWfeTvUmCf2K1cN5i98JOk04L34FiJbQyV717arNxKLgIaBTlpKAnqzfEV/K LOrQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.136.9 with SMTP id p9mr12336821qct.73.1348618415378; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.95.230 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:13:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:13:35 -0400 Message-ID: From: Brandon Allbery To: Michael Schuh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: battery state - hw.acpi.battery.life goes only down X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:13:36 -0000 On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Michael Schuh wrote: > hmm, may be. > i didn't thinked about that lithium charging feature. > you may right with that. > I have watched batteries cycle like that on OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD, and some versions of Windows; possibly more recent versions try to hide it. It's also possible the ACPI BIOS normally hides it but needs some recalibration step (on Macs, for example, you need to fully charge then fully discharge then fully charge again to recalibrate it; I think that's common). > but one point, this behaviour is new. > i made some tests to check if my conkyrc is right and there i haven't wait > that the battery is gone under 90% > for checking this. after i could confirm that the conkyrc is syntactically > correct, the battery reached 100% again. > That sounds like it is normal cycling then. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms