Re: hw.acpi.battery.time reports inconsistent values

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:19:14 -0500
Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all -- I don't know whether or not this is related to the recent
> battery rework, but I'm running
> prolepsis# uname -a
> FreeBSD prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5:
> Thu Jul 28 07:42:25 UTC 2005    
> kaduk_at_prolepsis.math.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROLEPSIS  i386
> and this afternoon I had my laptop running off its battery (basically
> as a jukebox), which is somewhat unusual since normally I plug it in. 
> I wanted to see how
> fast I was draining the battery, so I did some `sysctl
> hw.acpi.battery'-ing (see transcript below), and then proceeded to get
> very confused.
> 
> Is there a known race in this sysctl code, or should I be looking for
> something else (like a broken acpi)?

Re-cvsup and rebuild - Nate Lawson committed a fix for this today, after 
your build that fixed me up.

Eric




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