Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:55:58 -0700 From: Michael Haro <mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apm reports wrong remaining battery life Message-ID: <19990520125558.A42102@area51.fremont.ca.us> In-Reply-To: <199905190027.SAA79997@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:27:48PM -0600 References: <19990518162300.A26935@area51.fremont.ca.us> <199905190027.SAA79997@harmony.village.org>
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On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:27:48PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990518162300.A26935@area51.fremont.ca.us> Michael Haro writes: > : Hi, I noticed that on my Sony VAIO 505tx apm reports 3 hours > : of total life with both the standard and long batteries. Is > : there a way to fix this or is this just a bug in the way the VAIO > : or APM work? > > It is a "bug" in the VAIO's bios. It always says that the low cap > battery lasts three hours. It doesn't bother to do drain based > battery life calculations in the numbers it returns from the BIOS. To > get better numbers (like the ones that are on the power panel > application), FreeBSD would have to support ACPI. Any idea how hard ACPI would be to implement? Where can I find out more about ACPI? Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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