Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> David, >> >> So the new hald binary fixed your battery monitor >> issues? > > Some of them. I still have two issues. > > 1) It is very slow to detect changes. Under Vista, the removal of a battery > or mains power is detect immediately. It takes about 30s on here. Your > 'evprint' program sees the changes immediatly, but the monitor on gnome does > not. >
I don't see this issue on the Sony Vaio I have. Check prstat to see if you see anything interesting. > 2) The monitor does not detect the battery being removed, so it will indicate > the battery is 75% charged (or whatever figure it last was), hours after the > battery has been removed. > Were there events generated by evprint when the battery was removed? > Some time back, before the issue of panics or the monitor not working at all, > I did notice the monitor would indicate the battery had only one minute left, > but the laptop would run for perhaps 10 minutes before it powered off. Is > there some sort of "safety factor" which is a bit too pessimistic? >> hal cannot cause a panic. Do you have the stack >> trace? It's an estimate and it also depends on the condition of the battery. I think GPM may have a better estimate. Phi >> >> Phi > > I was not suggesting hal was the source of the panic. There was another > thread (or perhaps this one in the numerous places it has been split), where > someone was asking if really the acpi issue was really masking some other > issue which was affecting Sony laptops. > > I've got no record of the issue under b93. It just paniced a couple of times, > I re-wrote the DVD and it worked. > > Dave > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
