Re: Should battery generate events?

[Tim Dijkstra <newsuser-TpnWJeB+oO0hKRfeEwdQzg@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:20:22 +0200 (CEST)
liste-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org wrote:

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> Salut Tim,
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 16:25:58 +0200 (CEST)
> > It does show the correct state while discharging, so that's not the
> > problem.
> Sorry, but I doubt that, or you do not have the latest BIOS - and the 
> introduced this later. The DSDT from r01c0O-BIOS for TM 63x does
> allways say, that the "present-rate" is unknown.

Ah, yes present rate is always unknown, but what seemed more important
to me is 'remaining capacity', that does represents a usefull value.
Also the ACPI spec says that the battery/bios could signal that the
battery is almost empty by generating an event if capacity goes under a
certain value (see other mail from me in this thread).

grts TIm


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