Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 06:51:26 -0800 From: Rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz> Subject: Re: ACPI Message-ID: <3C419EED.9FC975BA@pythonemproject.com> References: <XFMail.020112155950.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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I'd second the motion to have it backported. I am willing to tweak and report bugs. I have a Viao FX290 with two batteries, but sure miss the low battery indicator. Now I plug it in when I see the second battery light come on. Rob. John Baldwin wrote: > > On 12-Jan-02 Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > There is no 5-STABLE. > > That was his point: it's a long way off so he wants ACPI backported to 4-STABLE > so he can use it w/o running current. :) > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> > > To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 7:01 AM > > Subject: ACPI > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> is there anybody thinking about back-porting ACPI interface into > >> 4-STABLE branch? 5-STABLE is still far ahead and there is lot > >> of new notebooks around having problems working with old APM > >> API (e.g. my ASUS T9400 I mentioned recently :o( ). And notebooks > >> are usually not good place for running -CURRENT ;-). > > I doubt this will happen any time soon as it doesn't work completely > on many systems, however, Mike Smith would be a better person to ask > about this. > > >> The things I need most is battery status reporting and fan control > >> using ACPI. Suspending would be convenient but I think is is much > >> more complex since it involves a lot of different drivers to work > >> in ACPI compliant way. > > Hmm, does fan control work under current on your laptop? It doesn't > on mine. :-P The fan seems to be controlled by the BIOS and ignores > commands from the OS. Battery reporting does work, and suspend and > resume work on my laptop as well. > > >> The other way I tried was using acpicatools on 4.4. I found device > >> BAT0 which is correctly reported as Li-ION but I don't know how > >> to get it's status (specificaly current battery capacity in > >> percents). Is it possible to get it using these tools without > >> having 5-CURRENT? > > Not really, you need the kernel support for these to be useful. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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