ENXIOing non-present battery

[Andriy Gapon]

On 07/12/2014 22:49, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 12/07/14 08:03, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Wait - so it reports a battery with 0% in it, but not that it's not present?
> 
> It reports all zeroes: Not Present, 0% power, 0V, 0mA design capacity, etc.
> 
>> How's this work on other systems? KDE on Linux doesn't lose its mind
>> if the second battery is totally flat.
> 
> Good question.  I'll download an Ubuntu image and find out.  Given that KDE
> gets this information via hald, it's possible that hald's linux code has a
> workaround for this though -- the battery-status-reading code is entirely
> separate between FreeBSD and Linux.

Or that HAL is no longer used at all in most Linux-based OSes...

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Andriy Gapon