Re: Battery charge limiting
Ian Smith <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Dmitry Kolosov wrote: > Is there a way to limit maximum battery charge level in FreeBSD? > As for common notebook battery usage recommendations - the best way to prolong > your battery life is to install and use software (available on windows), that > limits maximum charge level on about 80%, not giving battery to charge full. > so, it possible software-way, depending on (?) battery's controller. I've never heard of such a theory as limiting charge to prolong battery life, not with Lithium Ion batteries anyway; nor have I ever seen any such as a BIOS option. 'Common' on which brand/s of notebooks? Can you provide any links to articles discussing this? I don't think control over a notebook's charging is possible in FreeBSD; this is usually managed by an Embedded Controller and ACPI merely passes on the the states reported by that and by the battery itself. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"