acpi battery rework patch

[Eric Kjeldergaard]

On 7/24/05, Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> wrote:
> Marcin Jessa wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:00:01 +0900
> > Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>Please test to be sure your battery status works as usual, along with 
> >>>any apps.  Since most apps (xbatt, gnome, etc.) use the apm compat 
> >>>layer, they should work as before with no recompilation needed.
> > 
> > 
> >>-CURRENT as of 23/07/2005, does not compile.
> > 
> > 
> > Prolly because it's for 6.0, not 7.0
> 
> Sorry, the problem was I left a file out of the diff.  I just committed 
> the patch so please just cvsup and test from 7-CURRENT.
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Nate
> 
Excellent.  compiled and appears working.  It does however have
different values than the old system for some of the sysctl variables.
 I get

hw.acpi.battery.life: 98
hw.acpi.battery.time: 0
hw.acpi.battery.state: 0
hw.acpi.battery.units: 1
hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5

when plugged in.  But used to get time as -1 when plugged in and I
think state may have been 1 when plugged in before (less sure about
that than the time).  Thanks for the enormous amount of work your
efforts are very much appreciated,

Eric


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