Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 11:26:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@alexanderwohl.complete.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Batteries & FreeBSD Message-ID: <199802081927.LAA00439@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Feb 1998 23:51:12 CST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980207234417.262A-100000@alexanderwohl>
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> I may have mentioned part of this before; if so, please forgive the > repetition. You did, but you left out one important part. > I have an IBM Thinkpad 310ED. (P133) running FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. I > have applied the latest BIOS update from IBM. The laptop works fine with > Windows 95. (Well, as good as it could work with Windows 95 <grin>) Does W95 get the battery level right? > Anyway, under FreeBSD, the battery status doesn't get updated. For > instance, if the battery is at 93% when the laptop boots, FreeBSD thinks > it is still at 93% even several hours later when it is at 15%. Worse, the > laptop itself thinks it is still at 93% as indicated by its Fn-F4 battery > status meter. Well, gosh, it sounds like the new BIOS update screwed the code that's supposed to read the battery level. 8) > I have two questions: > > 1. Will this behavior in any way harm the battery? Shouldn't. > 2. What can I do to prevent this behavior? Go back to the old BIOS version. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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