Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:45:38 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E? Message-ID: <20040829194538.B2DAC5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:30:53 PDT." <20040829003053.GA91309@thought.org>
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> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 17:30:53 -0700 > From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > 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. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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