Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:19 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E? Message-ID: <20040829200319.GB81746@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040829194538.B2DAC5D04@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040829003053.GA91309@thought.org> <20040829194538.B2DAC5D04@ptavv.es.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <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. 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 kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040829200319.GB81746>