From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Tomanek Subject: Re: Battery rate on Acer TM 292 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 10:56:02 +0000 (UTC) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: References: <16A54BF5D6E14E4D916CE26C9AD305751B66D5@pdsmsx402.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20040913053900.GB851@message-id.gmane0305.slipkontur.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: thawte's Crypto Challenge Vl Crack the code and win a Sony DCRHC40 MiniDV Digital Handycam Camcorder. More prizes in the weekly Lunch Hour Challenge. Sign up NOW http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;10740251;10262165;m