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From: Stefan Tomanek <stefan-Q4Z/ui9EqVxM7kwft8N7nw@public.gmane.org>
To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Battery rate on Acer TM 292
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:56:02 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20040915T125239-771@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040913053900.GB851@message-id.gmane0305.slipkontur.de

Stefan Seyfried writes:

> There are actually a lot of systems where 'present rate' is pretty accurate
> and there is ACER where it is always 0. I am in a dispute with ACER engineers
> about this right now but they don't seem to understand the problem.

Ah, nice to hear that someone's trying to work on that issue.

> I wonder if you get to see a estimated battery lifetime in Windows on these
> machines.

I cannot help with that, since this notebook has seen windows only for a couple
of seconds before repartitioning. :-)

As you can see in the disassebld dsdt, they seem to check the os_name at some
places, I tried to set the name to various windows version, no luck so far.



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13  1:20 Battery rate on Acer TM 292 Li, Shaohua
     [not found] ` <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD305751B66D5-4yWAQGcml66iAffOGbnezLfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2004-09-13  5:39   ` Stefan Seyfried
2004-09-15 10:56     ` Stefan Tomanek [this message]
2004-09-17 15:15   ` Simon Fowler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-12 12:47 Stefan Tomanek
     [not found] ` <loom.20040912T144218-763-eS7Uydv5nfjZ+VzJOa5vwg@public.gmane.org>
2004-09-20  8:59   ` Norbert Preining

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