Re: gkrellmBUPS?

"Chris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> According to the specs, this /dev/hiddev is where a ups really 
> should be handled, but both gkrellmBUPS and the belkin software 
> can't handle it cause the belkin stuff is now 5 years old & even 
> gkrellmBUPS is older than a working /dev/hiddev in the kernel is.  
> Which amazes me somewhat since Belkin helped write the hid device 
> specs way back when.  upsd doesn't have to be running to see the 
> output from /dev/hiddev, its all built into the kernel now.

Hmm. Interesting. I'll have to have a look at hooking up my UPS to the machine
I have running linux and see if I can change the plugin behaviour to use
/dev/hiddev

chris
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