ENXIOing non-present battery

[Colin Percival]

On 12/11/14 11:08, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday, December 07, 2014 2:53:37 am Colin Percival wrote:
>> On my Dell Latitude E7440 laptop, the ACPI reports two batteries: First
>> the battery which exists; and second, a "Not Present" battery with zeroed
>> statistics.  FreeBSD, not realizing that this second battery is a complete
>> myth -- the E7440 only has one battery, and there is nowhere to add another
>> -- faithfully reports the data from ACPI to userland.
> 
> Does setting hint.battery.1.disabled=1 work for you?

That fixes the dev.battery sysctls and KDE's battery monitor.  The
hw.acpi.battery.units sysctl still reports "2", and `acpiconf -i 1`
still reports the phantom battery; but I suppose those don't matter
much...

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Colin Percival
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