Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:44:00 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recommended addition to apmd: Battery state watching Message-ID: <200105101644.f4AGi0b59936@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 04:04:07 PDT." <3AFA75A7.6050809@quack.kfu.com> References: <3AFA75A7.6050809@quack.kfu.com> <3AF96825.50803@quack.kfu.com> <200105100711.f4A7BBb55129@harmony.village.org>
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In message <3AFA75A7.6050809@quack.kfu.com> Nick Sayer writes: : Warner Losh wrote: : : > In message <3AF96825.50803@quack.kfu.com> Nick Sayer writes: : > : Anyone have any thoughts? : > : > I like this idea. But there are issues with that. What does 2% mean? : > If I plug in an discharged battery, I don't want things to shut down : > if I go from 1% charge to 2% charge. : : That's why I said that it had to go from being above or equal to the : number to going below it -- that is, the transition had to be downward : and AC offline. There are times that I'd want to go the other way too. If my battery is low, I'd like to keep things dim on my screen unitl a certain % of charge is achieved. This on the theory that if I'm using less power, the battery charges faster. : > However the real solution is to get the quad life batteries :-) : : I've got 'em, but until we have the portable version of Mr. Fusion it's : still an issue. :-) Ah. I knew I should have got mine while I was in japan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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