Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:08:15 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <njl@freebsd.org>, Ariff Abdullah <ariff@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No APM yet for AMD? Message-ID: <200601110908.17883.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <cone.1136955282.570697.51434.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20060103155509.GE13887@poupinou.org> <200601101626.11902.jhb@freebsd.org> <cone.1136955282.570697.51434.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Tuesday 10 January 2006 11:54 pm, Francisco Reyes wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > > Eh? You do realize that right now all I have is '-1' > > I am totally lost... > What is wrong with Ariff's patch? > http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/acpi/acpiconf.c.diff > > State: charging > Present rate: unknown > Remaining capacity: 62% > Voltage: unknown > AC line: on-line > > > charging rate and the remaining time to full charge, etc.) but it would > > give a somewhat decent estimate that would basically be based on what > > your usage was in the last sample time. > > OK. I understand better now. > Would this be more accurate than Ariff's patch? My idea is orthogonal. My system does report a remaining capacity, just no= t=20 the discharge rate. Some poorly written programs (like kde's laptop daemon= )=20 only work if they get a time, and a time is more easily parsed by humans. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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