On 12/12/14 07:21, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, December 11, 2014 01:05:49 PM Colin Percival wrote: >> On 12/11/14 11:08, John Baldwin wrote: >>> Does setting hint.battery.1.disabled=1 work for you? >> >> That fixes the dev.battery sysctls and KDE's battery monitor. The >> hw.acpi.battery.units sysctl still reports "2", and `acpiconf -i 1` >> still reports the phantom battery; but I suppose those don't matter >> much... > > Ok. That is the "generic" thing we already have in place to disable devices, > so I'd probably prefer to use that as the known workaround rather than adding > another knob.
OK, I'll stick to using that one. My original thinking was that disabling "whatever isn't present" would avoid the need for a user to figure out which number it was; but it's probably safe to assume that batteries will always be probed in the same order... > That said, it looks like we report the userland state of "not > present" correctly. I wonder if the bug is in KDE itself and its > FreeBSD-specific power management bits (rather than hald)? The FreeBSD-specific userland bits are in hald. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
