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Date:      Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:13:56 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Subject:   Re: Script to monitor battery status on X220
Message-ID:  <20120720091356.GA31015@sh4-5.1blu.de>
In-Reply-To: <201207201545.23915.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>
References:  <201207201004.59451.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <20120720053108.GD70259@e-new.0x20.net> <201207201545.23915.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>

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El día Friday, July 20, 2012 a las 03:45:23PM +0700, Erich Dollansky escribió:

> > ... 
> > Is it necessary to poll? Usually devd generates an event when the
> > battery status and/or percentage changes. Just read the events from
> > /var/run/devd.pipe.
> > 
> this is a good idea. I did not like this solution either but did not get a better idea when I did it.

I wrote and used something similar for my netbook EeePC 900; it turned
out that the battery is not showing the remaining capacity in a linear
way; the last 5% are 'consumed' in a few seconds, i.e. below 20% I
polled every 2 seconds;

	matthias
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