battery status with ACPI

[Jamie Bowden]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote:
> > I'm looking for applications, that can display ACPI status
> > information. Most wanted is battery status, but everything
> > else would also be of interest (e.g. fan status, cpu speed, etc).
> >
> > In the ports I can only find applications, that require APM,
> > not ACPI. The base system does not seem to provide something
> > either?
> >
> > Did I miss something?
>
> At least for the battery status the APM applications work well for me
> through the emulated APM interface of the ACPI. For fanspeed,
> temperature and stuff like that this won't work.

Xbattbar doesn't.  It can grok whether the machine is on wall power or
not, but that's it.  It cannot determine the battery level, and always
reports %100.  This was built using the port under RELENG_5_1.

Jamie Bowden

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