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

Hajimu UMEMOTO <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA
Message-ID <ygeek6xtb5m.wl%[email protected]>
Hi,

>>>>> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:23:19 -0700
>>>>> "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> said:

oberman> No. You need apm_enable even if you are using ACPI. Most of the battery
oberman> tools use the apm interface which may be emulated with ACPI. This
oberman> requires apm_enable="yes" even if you are not actually using APM.

No, you don't need apm_enable="yes" to use APM sim with ACPI.  You can
see battery status in an output of the apm(8) even when APM Management
is Disabled.  The apm(8) doesn't use an API of ACPI but uses an API of
APM.

ume@kasuga:1002% apm
APM version: 1.2
APM Management: Disabled
AC Line status: on-line
Battery Status: charging
Remaining battery life: 93%
Remaining battery time: unknown
Number of batteries: 1
Battery 0:
        Battery Status: charging
        Remaining battery life: 93%
        Remaining battery time: unknown
Resume timer: unknown
Resume on ring indicator: disabled

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
[email protected]  ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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