Monitoring battery status in X via acpi
Mark Santcroos
marks at ripe.net
Tue Jul 8 01:31:44 PDT 2003
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:47:14PM +0200, Markus D. wrote:
> Hm, there really is a /dev/apm, and it IS displaying correct values
> (ac-line, battery percentage etc.). Perhaps some sort of "compatibilty mode" ;-)
Well, indeed, the /dev/apm while using acpi is just an emulation layer
around acpi so that old programs still work.
> Gnome battstat just complains about disabled apm, but displays correct
> values nevertheless.
Does this get rid of the complaints?
# apm -e enable
--
Mark Santcroos RIPE Network Coordination Centre
http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/ New Projects Group/TTM
More information about the freebsd-mobile
mailing list