Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E?
Gary Kline <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:45:38PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:30:53 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline <[email protected]> > > Sender: [email protected] > > > > > > So far, it looks as tho my battery runs more than two hours on > > my old TP. But I'd like to have a gauge of some kind. When I > > try to install any of the battery apps I error out with > > "/dev/apm" notfound. Ihave "^device apm" compiled into the > > kernel. RH Linux finds the power-off device on one of the > > 1998 Kayaks. Didn't IBM have this on their hardware about the > > same time? > > Is apm enabled? You need to have both apm_enable and apmd_enable set to > "YES" in your rc.conf. > > The battery gauges I use are the Gnome battery applet and the gkrellm > battery gauge and both work fine on my 600E. I have apm_enable=YES; will set the daemon=yes and reboot. Does this create /dev/apm? I'm not clear on how the new /dev work on V5. thankee, gary -- Gary Kline [email protected] www.thought.org Public service Unix _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"