Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 21:03:05 +0200 From: Karsten Rothemund <karsten@photor.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad X24 and battery Message-ID: <20060504190305.GA37485@www.photor.de> In-Reply-To: <20060504185329.GA879@corpex.de> References: <20060504184311.GA37239@www.photor.de> <20060504185329.GA879@corpex.de>
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On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:53:30PM +0200, Frank Altpeter wrote:
> Hi there,
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> Karsten Rothemund wrote on 2006-05-04 at 20:43:11 CEST:
> > And up to now there has nothing changed; the battery is still so low
> > that the machine only starts with the power plugged in. To me it looks
> > like, the battery is dead.=20
> >=20
> > Or - and that is why I ask here - is there a problem with the X24 and
> > power management (AKA charging the battery)?=20
> >=20
> > Thank you for your help. May be some questions come later,
> AFAIK there is no way controlling the battery charge process, so i assume
> that your idea about the dead battery seems correct.
> If it doesn't sound reasonable enough, i suggest going into the BIOS and
> leave the notebook plugged for about an hour to see if it loads the
> battery then. Another idea would be to directly plug the power into the
> notebook, it could also be that the docking station is b0rked.
That's what I do at the moment. Same idea ;-)
> You also can sysctl the status via hw.acpi.battery, which should bring
> something like that when plugged to power:
>=20
> hw.acpi.battery.life: 94
> hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 (it's always -1 when on AC)
> hw.acpi.battery.state: 2 (1 when on batt, 2 when loading)
> hw.acpi.battery.units: 1
>=20
Yes and no. At the moment, disabled ACPI. But when I tried out
FreeSBIE it ran using ACPI. But I got strange output from that saying
nothing (a lot of "0" and "-1"). Especially the .life variable. :-/
That's why I thought I should try without ACPI.
CU,
Karsten
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