No APM yet for AMD?

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:14:13AM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot writes:
> 
> >>http://public.natserv.net/acpidump.txt
> >
> >Well could you try to add this to your /boot/loader.conf:
> >hw.acpi.osname="Microsoft Windows NT"
> 
> Done
> 
> 
> >It's because I want to check what happens if the following ASL is
> >triggered:
> >
> >If (LEqual (SizeOf (\_OS), 0x14))
> >{
> >    BPOL (0x3C)
> >}
> 
> Second dump on the same location... different name
> http://public.natserv.net/acpidump2.txt
> 
> >That's look like a workaround for Windows NT and that seems to
> >be related to batteries and AC adapter.
> 
> Not sure what was supposed to happen after trying the change in 
> loader.conf, but I tried "sysctl -a |grep acpi.bat" and the results are the 
> same as before.
> 
> 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

It was a stupid idea, sorry.  I will look a little bit more.  I think I
begin to understand what's wrong, but I need to look a little bit
further.

I also CC to freebsd-acpi@ with a reply-to accordingly.

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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