From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 15 09:40:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9983E1065674 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:40:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.server1.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [82.193.243.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5331F8FC15 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:40:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (MN-VPN2.HS-Karlsruhe.DE [193.196.117.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.server1.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14ECB86187; Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <502B6E8A.5080601@bsdforen.de> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:40:26 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120807 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niclas Zeising References: <502B5F7D.6000909@bsdforen.de> <502B61B8.4040304@bsdforen.de> <502B68EA.5040907@daemonic.se> In-Reply-To: <502B68EA.5040907@daemonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andreas Nilsson Subject: Re: battery state X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:40:28 -0000 On 15/08/2012 11:16, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2012-08-15 11:07, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 15/08/2012 10:40, Andreas Nilsson wrote: >>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Dominic Fandrey >>>> wrote: >>>>> For a while now "acpiconf -i0" always shows the battery state that >>>>> was correct when booting the system. It's never updated. >>>>> >>>> It wont solve the problem, but does the sysctl hw.acpi.battery.time update >>>> correctly? >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for the fast reply, right now it shows -1 (the system was plugged >>> in during boot). >>> >>> I just unplugged it and it still shows -1: >>> >>>> sysctl hw.acpi.battery >>>> >>> hw.acpi.battery.life: 99 >>> hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 >>> hw.acpi.battery.state: 0 >>> hw.acpi.battery.units: 2 >>> hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 >> >> Sounds like there is some acpi-problem then. On my thinkpad it takes maybe >> five seconds for it to go from -1 to an estimate. Also >> hw.acpi.battery.state=0 for me equals "AC plugged in and battery full". > > Just a short "aol". I'm seeing the same issue, also on a HP laptop, a > HP 6910p with a Core2Duo 2.0GHz processor (can't remember the exact > model). It has been this way for as long as I can remember (at least a > year), but I haven't checked into the matter more closely. There was a time when this actually worked for me. I should have reacted instantly when the problem came up, but I had a race car to build ... FSAE. > Are you > running the latest current? I haven't updated in a while, so perhaps > the issue has been resolved... Nay, I stick to the RELENG_ branches. I'll switch to RELENG_10 shortly before a 10.0 release. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?