Acer laptops - smart battery support

[H. S.]

Hey,

Wow, nice!

When you need some testing I'll be available, take your time :-)


> H. S. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/projects/acpi/ , I understand the
>> support for smart batteries isn't yet implemented on FreeBSD.. is there
>> any plan to implement this? I can test patches etc, as I'm sure many
>> other
>> people can too, and this support would be a big plus for us who use our
>> favourite OS on such a laptop.
>
> Good news, it's already being worked on.  Hans Petter Selasky has kindly
> submitted some code that he developed and I'm in the process of
> integrating it.  It will be a little while though before it hits cvs as
> I'm extremely busy with work and it's not a small project.
>
> --
> Nate
>