Apparently I am wrong. So ignore me.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 07:56:36AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
> Don't think so. I think this is the same issue ketenis has where the
> underlying hardware does not update the battery status and therefore
> acpibat reads the cached values.
>
> Can you try plugging in (or out) the power or adjust the screen
> brightness? That kicks the hardware in the face causing an update of
> the battery as well.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:38:32PM +0200, Peter Hessler wrote:
> > There was a fix for this very recently, please update to a snapshot or
> > -current.
> >
> > On 2010 Jul 24 (Sat) at 12:04:56 -0700 (-0700), Luis Useche wrote:
> > :HI Guys,
> > :
> > :I have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop where I am using OpenBSD.
> > :
> > :My problem is that the battery status is not updated frequently enough. It
> > :is updated when the machine boots and when less than 10% of the battery is
> > :remaining. I was wondering if this is the expected behavior.
> > :
> > :I check apm and apmd code and the "issue" seems to be comming from the acpi
> > :driver itself. I tried to read acpi, but it looks very intimidating to me.
> > :
> > :Any thoughts?
> > :
> > :Thanks in advance,
> > :Luis.
> > :
> >
> > --
> > I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
> > -- G. B. Shaw
