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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:57:46 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Vallez?= <remi.vallez@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [newbie] read an acpi value 
Message-ID:  <20050315165746.1E84E5D08@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:50:11 %2B0100." <545f9a50050315085067700ebe@mail.gmail.com> 

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> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:50:11 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Vallez?= <remi.vallez@gmail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org
> 
> I am working on the subject "wifi and power management on laptops" and
> i try to get the battery present rate and battery present voltage.
> i know this 2 values are present in the ACPI  (in the table _BST)  but
> they are not retrieve by sysctl.
> 
> Can you tell me a way to retrieve this values

There is almost certainly a better way, but "acpiconf -i [0|1]" will
return that information. If you want to get it directly, I'd look at the
acpiconf sources.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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