is acpi working well ?

[Daniel Leal]

This machine has almost 2 years old.
Before I install FBSD the battery last like 2 hours. But now...
I already load tochiba_acpi in loader.conf, but nothing new...
I am going to turn on acpi verbosity to see what i can get from there.

thanks,

daniel


Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Daniel Leal wrote:
>
>  > Well, the hw.acpi.thermal is not shown in the sysctl hw.acpi list. Maybe that
>  > means that my MB does not have that kind of sensor. But if not, is there a
>  > way to control the CPU fan speed according to CPU work? It seams to me that
>  > the CPU fan is always with the same velocity. And when I had windows
>  > installed in this laptop I remember that when some complicated apps were
>  > running the sound of the fan was different.
>
> As Rui suggested, add 'powerd_enable=YES' to rc.conf for that.  However 
> it does seem a bit odd that hw.acpi.thermal sysctls aren't showing up.
>
>  > Regarding the battery, do do you think that with the following list I can
>  > monitor the charge and be sure that I will not have an unexpected shutdown if
>  > I run my laptop just on battery?
>
> [..]
>
>  > hw.acpi.verbose: 0
>
> If you turn that on you may get some more clues in /var/log/messages.  
> ie hw.acpi.verbose=1 in /boot/loader.conf
>
>  > hw.acpi.acline: 1 
>  > hw.acpi.battery.life: -1
>  > hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 
>  > hw.acpi.battery.state: 7
>  > hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 
>  > hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5
>
> I don't recall ever seeing a battery.state of 7?  When fully charged my 
> Thinkpad T23 shows state 0, battery.life 98 to 100 (%).  If your battery 
> is ok you should get at least 1 hour on battery, maybe 2 or 3 hours, so 
> that does look like a problem .. whether hardware or ACPI I can't guess.
>
> Is this a new machine?
>
> Have you tried loading acpi_toshiba(4) ?  Try kldload acpi_toshiba, if 
> it's of any help, put acpi_toshiba_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf
>
> cheers, Ian
>
>  > Rui Paulo wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > On 30 Dec 2008, at 17:59, Daniel Leal wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > Thanks for your reply.
>  > > > 
>  > > > So that means that simply my laptop is not able to deal with it, or maybe
>  > > > in a future FreeBSD release it could work?
>  > > 
>  > > Yes, but, of course, you can try to find the problem and I'll try to help
>  > > you with a fix if time permits :-)
>  > > 
>  > > Regards,
>  > > -- 
>  > > Rui Paulo
>