5.4-REL/KDE3.4 && notebook battery/temperature

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Oct 7 08:23:25 PDT 2005


> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:40:25 +0000
> From: Marcin Jessa <lists at yazzy.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 06:27:50 -0300
> AT Matik <asstec at matik.com.br> wrote:
> 
> : On Friday 07 October 2005 04:27, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> : > It does not even show in the toolbar of KDE. And that was the whole
> : > point.
> : 
> : you need apm_enable="yes" in your rc.conf 
> : 
> Right, I use ACPI which works great on my lapper so I guess this one
> is of no use for me and others who don't use APM.

No. You need apm_enable even if you are using ACPI. Most of the battery
tools use the apm interface which may be emulated with ACPI. This
requires apm_enable="yes" even if you are not actually using APM.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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