From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Feb 7 21:52:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04396 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alexanderwohl.complete.org (ict10.southwind.net [206.53.100.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04387 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 21:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by alexanderwohl.complete.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA00270 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:51:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 23:51:12 -0600 (CST) From: John Goerzen X-Sender: jgoerzen@alexanderwohl To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Batteries & FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I may have mentioned part of this before; if so, please forgive the repetition. I have an IBM Thinkpad 310ED. (P133) running FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. I have applied the latest BIOS update from IBM. The laptop works fine with Windows 95. (Well, as good as it could work with Windows 95 ) Anyway, under FreeBSD, the battery status doesn't get updated. For instance, if the battery is at 93% when the laptop boots, FreeBSD thinks it is still at 93% even several hours later when it is at 15%. Worse, the laptop itself thinks it is still at 93% as indicated by its Fn-F4 battery status meter. I have two questions: 1. Will this behavior in any way harm the battery? 2. What can I do to prevent this behavior? Thanks, John Goerzen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message