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To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E? 
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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
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> 
> 	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