Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:59:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz> Subject: Re: ACPI Message-ID: <XFMail.020112155950.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <000b01c19bbf$e9492bb0$a700a8c0@cptnhosedonkey>
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On 12-Jan-02 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > There is no 5-STABLE. That was his point: it's a long way off so he wants ACPI backported to 4-STABLE so he can use it w/o running current. :) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> > To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 7:01 AM > Subject: ACPI > > >> Hi all, >> >> is there anybody thinking about back-porting ACPI interface into >> 4-STABLE branch? 5-STABLE is still far ahead and there is lot >> of new notebooks around having problems working with old APM >> API (e.g. my ASUS T9400 I mentioned recently :o( ). And notebooks >> are usually not good place for running -CURRENT ;-). I doubt this will happen any time soon as it doesn't work completely on many systems, however, Mike Smith would be a better person to ask about this. >> The things I need most is battery status reporting and fan control >> using ACPI. Suspending would be convenient but I think is is much >> more complex since it involves a lot of different drivers to work >> in ACPI compliant way. Hmm, does fan control work under current on your laptop? It doesn't on mine. :-P The fan seems to be controlled by the BIOS and ignores commands from the OS. Battery reporting does work, and suspend and resume work on my laptop as well. >> The other way I tried was using acpicatools on 4.4. I found device >> BAT0 which is correctly reported as Li-ION but I don't know how >> to get it's status (specificaly current battery capacity in >> percents). Is it possible to get it using these tools without >> having 5-CURRENT? Not really, you need the kernel support for these to be useful. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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