Subject: Re: NOTE: ACPI update
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 11/02/2003 17:40:01
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 05:11:11PM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> On Sunday 02 November 2003 04:13 pm, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:02:25PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > > Something changed.. I never saw 100% charge before..
> >
> > To be more precise:
> >
> > NetBSD 1.6ZE (HP) #71: Sat Nov  1 20:52:48 GMT 2003
> > % envstat -r
> >     acpiacad0 connected
> >        acpibat0 present
> >     acpibat0 design cap:      4.000 Ah
> >  acpibat0 last full cap:      2.764 Ah
> >     acpibat0 technology:          1
> > acpibat0 design voltage:     14.800 V
> >       acpibat0 warn cap:      0.320 Ah (11.58%)
> >        acpibat0 low cap:      0.200 Ah ( 7.24%)
> >        acpibat0 voltage:     16.635 V
> >    acpibat0 charge rate:      0.000 A
> > acpibat0 discharge rate:      0.000 A
> >         acpibat0 charge:      2.764 Ah (100.00%)
> >     acpitz0 temperature:     54.050 degC
> >
> > NetBSD 1.6ZE (HP) #69: Sun Oct 26 15:55:21 GMT 2003
> > % envstat -r
> >     acpiacad0 connected
> >        acpibat0 present
> >     acpibat0 design cap:     59.200 Wh
> >        acpibat0 lfc cap:     40.907 Wh (69.10%)
> >     acpibat0 technology:          1
> > acpibat0 design voltage:     14.800 V
> >       acpibat0 warn cap:      4.736 Wh
> >        acpibat0 low cap:      2.960 Wh
> >        acpibat0 voltage:     16.643 V
> >          acpibat0 power:     -0.001 W
> >         acpibat0 energy:     40.907 Wh (69.10%)
> >     acpitz0 temperature:     51.050 degC
> 
> Wow, I would *not* have expected it to change from Wh to Ah.  I suspected you 
> might be using a different machine or battery, but the numbers work out the 
> same.  Very wacky.
> 
> What model machine is this?  I'd like to look at the DSDT and see WTF it's 
> doing.

It's an hp pavilion zt1141s. I didn't know the units came out as part of the
acpi query!

Cheers,

Patrick