Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >>>> 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? > > No. Removal of the battery is not detected via evprint, or lsham -m. > >> I remember now that you mentioned removing the >> battery doesn't generate >> events. This would be an issue with your BIOS. >> Check if there is a >> pdate. > > But why would battery removal be detected under Vista if its a BIOS problem?
There are generic ACPI methods that are sometimes not supported properly. Vista could be using Sony proprietary methods and we would need Sony's help to get those. > > > I checked the Sony web site, there is an updated BIOS, but its only supposed > to improve Vista compatibility and improve security of the fingerprint > reader. Nothing about battery indication, which as I said, works fine under > Vista. > > I applied the bios update, as well as one to update the firmware on the cd > writer, but it is making no difference to the battery issue. > > >> In cases where events are not being generated, there >> is also a poll that >> happens every 30 secs to update the power status. >> Does lshal|grep >> resent show that the battery is not present after 30 >> secs or more? > > This is the output of that command, a 5-10 minutes after the battery was > removed. > > # lshal | grep resent > ac_adapter.present = true (bool) > battery.voltage.present = 12282 (0x2ffa) (int) > battery.present = true (bool) > > > Any more thoughts ?? Not yet. Phi > > Dave > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
