Re: Monitoring battery status in X via acpi

Mark Santcroos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:47:14PM +0200, Markus D. wrote:
> Hm, there really is a /dev/apm, and it IS displaying correct values
> (ac-line, battery percentage etc.). Perhaps some sort of "compatibilty mode" ;-) 

Well, indeed, the /dev/apm while using acpi is just an emulation layer
around acpi so that old programs still work.

> Gnome battstat just complains about disabled apm, but displays correct
> values nevertheless.

Does this get rid of the complaints?
# apm -e enable

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Mark Santcroos                    RIPE Network Coordination Centre
http://www.ripe.net/home/mark/    New Projects Group/TTM
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