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Date:      Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:11:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: APM 
Message-ID:  <200007052211.QAA44265@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "30 Jun 2000 21:42:02 %2B0200." <2000-06-30-21-42-02%2Btrackit%2Bsam@antinea.enst.fr> 
References:  <2000-06-30-21-42-02%2Btrackit%2Bsam@antinea.enst.fr>  <200006141859.LAA27142@mass.cdrom.com> 

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In message <2000-06-30-21-42-02+trackit+sam@antinea.enst.fr> Samuel Tardieu writes:
: >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> writes:
: 
: Mike> Your BIOS may be lying.  Or perhaps Fujitsu count differently.
: Mike> It's fairly harmless. 8) (My Dell box takes two batteries, and
: Mike> claims two even when there's only one inserted.  Go figure...)
: 
: Or maybe the way FreeBSD count them is flawed, as my Compaq has also
: one batteries and FreeBSD reports two, while Windows reports one.

No.  There are several APM BIOSes that lie.  Windows doesn't always
use APM to get the batteries.

Warner


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