[kde-freebsd] HP Elitebook 8460p and problem with KDE 4.10, 5 battery monitor

[Alberto Villa]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> The KDE Battery monitor thinks that I have no battery life left, and
> suspends my laptop in 30 seconds.
>
> I'm not sure, but I think that the KDE battery monitor
> is getting confused that the hardware supports having two batteries,
> but I only have one battery installed.
>
> I see that Alberto Villa submitted this patch to KDE:
>
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110941/
>
> I think this patch is related to my problem and may solve it.  Has this
> patch
> been pushed upstream to KDE, or do we have it in the FreeBSD port?

The patch should not be related as it was supposed to solve the exact
opposite problem, i.e., battery being considered always plugged in.

A lot of changes were committed to the battery monitor in 4.11,
especially to improve multiple batteries support, so it's worth
waiting for the update to hit the ports and see if it's enough to fix
the issue.
-- 
Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla at FreeBSD.org>
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avilla