Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:10:52 -0500 From: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, Nate Lawson <njl@freebsd.org>, Ariff Abdullah <ariff@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: No APM yet for AMD? Message-ID: <cone.1136909452.339423.44874.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20060103155509.GE13887@poupinou.org> <20060110181931.57fd0d39.ariff@FreeBSD.org> <20060110130624.GD32102@poupinou.org> <200601100934.54698.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin writes: > It would be nice if we could add the ability to guess the rate based on the > amount of power lost in the last interval I don't know much about ACPI... but that method sounds to me like could be very inaccurate. I have noticed a very big difference in drain whether I am running text screens or running X. > periodically, and if we lost X mAh since the last check and are discharging, > assume that is the discharge rate for time calculations) That would imply a fixed discharge rate, which seems to me is not fixed. >I've wanted to add this for a while but > haven't gotten around to it. I am totally new at dealing with laptops+FreeBSD... but perhaps others can validate my comments... and see how much their batteries drop in text mode.. vs X.. in a fixed amount of time. I think this would decide whether such a patch would be benefitial.
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