From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 00:13:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C17B16A4CF; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:13:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.raught.net (pcp0010251116pcs.lpaxtn01.pa.comcast.net [68.36.104.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E12843D53; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:13:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mraught@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([10.0.0.52]) by www.raught.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j26030Cg002935; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:03:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <422A1848.6000607@acm.org> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:36:24 -0500 From: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041204 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser References: <20050305192153.GA20692@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050305192153.GA20692@genius.tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Out of battery indicator. X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:13:06 -0000 Josef Karthauser wrote: > Does anyone have a solution to running out of battery using ACPI (5.3?). > I keep forgetting to plug in my power supply and the machine dies rather > suddenly without beeping or giving me any warning that it was out of > battery. > > Any ideas? I would have thought that this was an O/S task rather than a > third party app task. > > Joe I use apm so my solution is in /etc/apmd.conf but for ACPI I think you need to look at /etc/devd.conf and the cmbat stuff... I'm not sure of the details, but maybe this can point you in the right direction. -mark