Re: Battery update frequency

I tried today's (August 9th) snapshot and the problems is gone. Thanks, Luis. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Hessler phess...@theapt.org 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

Re: Battery update frequency

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.

Re: Battery update frequency

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

Re: Battery update frequency

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

Battery update frequency

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