Re: gkrellmBUPS?
Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
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On Thursday 10 May 2007, Chris wrote: >> 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 That would be great Chris, but if you do that, we would still need something to replace the bulldog monitor so that we can order battery tests and such, and a network driver too so that the local network will be notified of impending shutdowns, etc etc. Their upsd does all the network stuffs now. So that's a 2 part package I'd guess. And it would be most welcome. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson _______________________________________________ Gkrellm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.jutley.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gkrellm