Re: apm_emu module missing

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Ed,

Ed Robbins wrote:
> I believe that the apm_emu module is required for battery
> indicator/monitoring on certain powerbooks?
>
> It seems to be missing on latest kernels (6.3, 6.11). Can it be
> enabled for our config?
>
> Or, is there an alternative way to enable battery indicators?

GNUstep battery monitor (batmon.app) supports directly the Apple PMU. 
Didn't check if it is packaged on Debian though.
I didn't even know emulation of APM existed.
It has some minor shortcomings since it seems the kernel has some bogus 
flags, I asked about this here in the mailing list a year ago and never 
got an answer! So it can what I found though reverse engineering.

Riccardo
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