Re: apm on Jornada 720/728?
Alex Poylisher <[email protected]>
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Further to this, if apm is configured, shouldn't /dev/power be configured as
well?
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Alex Poylisher
sher{at}komkon{dot}org
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:53:07PM +0100, Peter Postma wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:23:29PM -0500, Alex Poylisher wrote:
> > How does one configure APM in the hpcarm kernel? If it doesn't work yet, is
> > there another way to check battery status?
> >
> > I am running -current built from yesterday's sources on a Jornada 728.
> >
>
> Add "apm0 at j720ssp?" to your kernel config.
>
> But note that the battery status is not very accurate, it will show high
> values even when the battery is almost running out.
>
> I think that the formula is incorrect to calculate the battery status,
> so I'm using the following patch and it shows much more precise values:
> http://nedbsd.nl/~ppostma/hpcarm-apm.diff
>
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> Peter Postma