Hi, On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 03:34:36 PM Natacha Porté wrote: > > on Saturday 30 June 2012 at 09:21, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > sorry for the late reply. As usual, I have had to travel and did not > > get a chance to connect to the Internet. > > No problem, I'm at least as slow with e-mail, and I don't even have any > excuse ;-)
I can help you there with a new one. I am currently on a real deserted place. No public supply lines of any kind. And they blew the generator last night. > > OK, I will try it with CURRENT as soon as I get the opportunity (I > already have a thumb drive dedicated for that kind of tests). > I should have thought of this too earlier. My backups are all bootable but I never got the idea to use them for this purpose. > > How did you get this value? No battery inserted? The range should be > > from 0 to 100. > > Indeed, I had no battery inserted. Years ago I took the habit of > removing the battery of laptops used for long amount of time on AC > (currently for my X220, that's 9h every workday), because keeping a > fully charged battery on AC used to kill it. However I admit I don't > know whether technology improved enough to mnake it a non-issue (or even > whether even by then it was actually an issue and not an urban legend). As an engineer I would say that Lenovo would have done a real bad job if this makes still a significant difference. > > Anyway, now with the battery inserted and charging, I still have > hw.acpi.battery.life: -1. > However, as soon as I unplug, I get a reasonable value there (currently > 98, with hw.acpi.battery.time: 265). 265? Hey this more than me. I get never more than 240 with the 6 cell battery. I am considering a second one for this reason. But I can really work the three to four hours with it. Unlike the Windows battery life time of 10h with brightness to minimum and no applications running. > > > > hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 > > > hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 > > > > I have 0 here. > > I have 2 when it's charging, and 1 when it's discharging. Ok, now I have the same. 1 and 2. But never 7. It seems that there are some secrets. > > > > $ sysctl dev.acpi_ibm > > > > I do not have anything with IBM or Lenovo. > > > > I also did not load anything specific for the X220 except of the Intel KMS > > module. > > Interesting, though it turns out that not using it on my 9-STABLE does > not help with any of the small issues I still have. Though I will try > both with and without it when I experiment with CURRENT. Thanks for the > point. Do you also have the USB 3 port? Erich _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
