From: Pedro V. <pj...@ar...> - 2005-01-03 19:50:21
|
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Ducrot wrote: | On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 05:35:13PM +0000, Pedro Venda wrote: | |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |>Hash: SHA1 |> |>Pedro Venda wrote: |>| Bruno Ducrot wrote: |>| |>| | I think I found was wrong. Please refetch, or (at your option) rep= lace |>| | i2c-acpi-ec.ec with |>| | |>| http://www.poupinou.org/acpi/smartbatt/smartbatt/i2c-acpi-ec/i2c-acpi= -ec.c |>| | then redo the sh compile.sh |>| | Sorry, it was a stupid bug(tm) requiring that I buy a brown bag... |>| |>| happens to everyone. |>| |>| | Something wrong also with rmmod i2c-acpi-ec :( so you have to reboo= t in |>| | order to be able to 'insmod i2c-acpi-ec.ko' again (I'm sure the bro= wn |>| | bag will still be helpfull also...). |> |>ok I made a small patch against your most recent code base: | | | Thanks. | | |>included: |>- - a Makefile for the i2c-acpi-ec module |>- - a Makefile for the smartbattery program which also calls the |>i2c-acpi-ec make |>process. |> |>in the smartbattery directory, one just "make"s and everything gets bui= lt. | | | Ok. another thing: I changed the current drain from "mA or mWh" to "mAh or mW= " in smartbattery.c but I'm having some doubts: Are these energy or power measures? for power measures, the units would be mA/h or mW for energy measures, the units would be mA or mW.h so, maybe I changed it wrong... care to comment? |>I found out that when draining power from the battery with no AC power,= the |>value returned should be added to -65535 to result in the correct value= . |> |>this puzzles me, because when the battery is being used, the returned v= alue |>seems to be subtracted from 65535 but when the AC is plugged, it seems= to |>come |>out ok... | | | Look at http://www.sbs-forum.org/specs/sbdat110.pdf | 5.1.11. Current() | why this happens. thanks for pointing me at the documentation. actually I would be doing th= at because I have some printed information at home. But until then, I must w= ork a little more or else I'll never be an engineer. regards, pedro venda. - -- Pedro Jo=E3o Lopes Venda email: pj...@ar... http://arrakis.dhis.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB2aH1eRy7HWZxjWERAnzYAKCuThG375Tj8Mq44l1deufL4WSNOgCg2+Zy 2pNWdYHZaL+NJ/wLuODRv/I=3D =3DQZTz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |