Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:08:54 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad - UltraBay battery magic Message-ID: <44946F66.1570.642B0D75@dan.langille.org> In-Reply-To: <20060617235457.D6AFA45043@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:12:49 EDT." <44944621.3695.6389DA2F@dan.langille.org>
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On 17 Jun 2006 at 16:54, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > When installing a 2nd battery (i.e in the UltraBay after removing the > > CD drive) in a ThinkPad, I think there's some magic you must invoke > > to get the system to notice the additional power resource. > > > > Any ideas? > > The code to allow ACPI to add batteries has yet to be written (or committed, > at least). If the system is booted with 2 two batteries, both will be seen. > Even it one is removed and then returned, it will be seen. But if a system is > booted with a single battery, ACPI will not ever see the second battery. > > Please note that the second battery WILL be seen by the hardware and both > charged and used. I rebooted. It froze after probing ad0. I powered off. I removed the spare battery. I rebooted. Froze again, same place. I put in the CD drive, it booted fine. I swapped out the CD drive and put the battery back in. This time I did a verbose boot. In short: both batteries are seen in the probing. ad0 is probed pcm0 is measured fdc0: output ready timeout [repeat above line 7 times] GEOM: new disk ad0 Screen shot here: http://www.langille.org/tmp/100_2831.jpg Ideas? Suggestions? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
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