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Date:      Thu, 13 May 2004 00:05:36 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hw.acpi.battery.info_expire
Message-ID:  <20040512220536.GA11057@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20040512215437.431A65D07@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20040512214447.GA837@gicco.homeip.net> <20040512215437.431A65D07@ptavv.es.net>

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On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:54:37PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:44:47 +0200
> > From: Hanspeter Roth <hampi@rootshell.be>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > what does hw.acpi.battery.info_expire mean?
> 
> I believe that is the time in seconds between updates to the life and
> time entries. That lets you know how fast it is possible to poll the
> information.
> 
> If you are not aware of it, you can get quite a bit of additional
> information on your batteries with the command 'acpiconf -i n', where
> 'n' is the battery number starting with 0 for the first battery.

Which reminds me:

wkb@chuck ~: acpiconf -i 0
Battery 0 information
Design capacity:        -1 mWh
Last full capacity:     -1 mWh
Technology:             secondary (rechargeable)
Design voltage:         -1 mV
Capacity (warn):        800 mWh
Capacity (low):         16 mWh
Low/warn granularity:   100 mWh
Warn/full granularity:  100 mWh
Model number:           BAT1
Serial number:          0000
Type:                   LION
OEM info:               COMPAQ

-1 ??  As you can guess all my battery low warnings are fubared 
by this :)

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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