ACPI support - Freebsd 10 on Sony Vaio VPCCA3C5E

[Daniele Mazzotti]

Hello there,

it is been a while since I finished installing Freebsd 10 on my Sony Vaio
PC and resolving (or at least I am trying to) one by one, all the problems
this hardware is giving me. Actually I cannot find a solution to correctly
display the battery level on my laptop. If I unplug my PC from the power
and type 'sysctl hw.acpi.battery' this is the result I get:

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

Moreover the suspend mode is giving me some problems as well, but this has
definitely a lower priority.

I either tried to search for a solution on the FreeBSD Handook with no
luck, and google the problem a little bit, but I could not find any
valuable help. I would be really interested to investigate the problem
further. Is there anyone who can help me out with this and tell me what
pieces of information are needed to better understand the problem?

Cheers,
Daniele.