From: John Ruttenberg <rutt@chezrutt.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:39:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15589.5673.460356.221529@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E178j9U-0006fz-00@the-village.bc.nu>
I thought I'd try to figure out that there were two batteries and divide by 2
or something like that. Perhaps the bios of this notebook is just broken,
though.
Alan Cox:
> > of the batteries is less than 50% (according to the bios), then /proc/apm
> > shows the battery power level X 2. If the combined charge of the batteries is
> > greater than 50%, then /proc/apm shows:
> >
> > 1.16 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x10 -1% -1 ?
> >
> > I think this is because the bogus calculation it would make would result in a
> > percentage > 100.
> >
> > I took a quick look at arch/i386/kernel/apm.c but it wasn't obvious what to
> > do.
>
> The data basically comes from the BIOS as is
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-17 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-17 14:25 Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries John Ruttenberg
2002-05-17 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 14:39 ` John Ruttenberg [this message]
2002-05-17 15:20 ` David G Hamblen
2002-05-18 12:20 ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-20 15:26 ` Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries [Solved!] John Ruttenberg
2002-05-17 17:20 ` Dell Inspiron i8100 with 2 batteries Alan Cox
2002-05-20 14:09 ` Marc Lehmann
2002-05-20 15:00 ` John Ruttenberg
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