Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:57:21 +0200 From: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, kjelderg@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, nate@root.org Subject: Re: acpi battery rework patch Message-ID: <20050724225721.0f869e66.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: <20050724215818.55f951ae.lists@yazzy.org> References: <42E1481F.5040306@root.org> <d9175cad050723030041dd7387@mail.gmail.com> <20050723133819.36efb537.lists@yazzy.org> <42E29CAA.1020007@root.org> <d9175cad0507232047160cc758@mail.gmail.com> <20050724215818.55f951ae.lists@yazzy.org>
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:58:18 +0200 Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:47:13 +0900 > Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 7/24/05, Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> wrote: > > > Marcin Jessa wrote: > > > > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:00:01 +0900 > > > > Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>>Please test to be sure your battery status works as usual, along with > > > >>>any apps. Since most apps (xbatt, gnome, etc.) use the apm compat > > > >>>layer, they should work as before with no recompilation needed. > > > > > > > > > > > >>-CURRENT as of 23/07/2005, does not compile. > > > > > > > > > > > > Prolly because it's for 6.0, not 7.0 > > > > > > Sorry, the problem was I left a file out of the diff. I just committed > > > the patch so please just cvsup and test from 7-CURRENT. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > -- > > > Nate > > > > > Excellent. compiled and appears working. It does however have > > different values than the old system for some of the sysctl variables. > > I get > > > > hw.acpi.battery.life: 98 > > hw.acpi.battery.time: 0 > > hw.acpi.battery.state: 0 > > hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 > > hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 > > > > when plugged in. But used to get time as -1 when plugged in and I > > think state may have been 1 when plugged in before (less sure about > > that than the time). Thanks for the enormous amount of work your > > efforts are very much appreciated, > > > > Eric > > Ditto, thanks a lot. It works well here too. I can now actually correctly see whether the lapper is connected to power or runs on battery. > Before the state change could not be detected. > What lacks is remining time which AFAIR worked before, now showing : hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 > I don't miss it though since showing remining percentage is more than enough. > Thanks again for great work! It seems like I was wrong. The time values showed up after a short while of running on battery.
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