From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Feb 8 11:27:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23762 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 11:27:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23757 for ; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 11:27:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00439; Sun, 8 Feb 1998 11:27:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802081927.LAA00439@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Goerzen cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Batteries & FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Feb 1998 23:51:12 CST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 11:26:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 ) 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