Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:19:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hw.acpi.battery.time reports inconsistent values Message-ID: <42E99222.8090406@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c05072817251d3c965a@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c05072817251d3c965a@mail.gmail.com>
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Ben Kaduk wrote: > Hi all -- I don't know whether or not this is related to the recent > battery rework, but I'm running > prolepsis# uname -a > FreeBSD prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: > Thu Jul 28 07:42:25 UTC 2005 > kaduk@prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROLEPSIS i386 > and this afternoon I had my laptop running off its battery (basically > as a jukebox), which is somewhat unusual since normally I plug it in. > I wanted to see how > fast I was draining the battery, so I did some `sysctl > hw.acpi.battery'-ing (see transcript below), and then proceeded to get > very confused. > > Is there a known race in this sysctl code, or should I be looking for > something else (like a broken acpi)? Re-cvsup and rebuild - Nate Lawson committed a fix for this today, after your build that fixed me up. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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