Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:50:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: battery status with ACPI Message-ID: <20031023103304.H20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20031023144220.A59385D07@ptavv.es.net>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:57:03 -0700 (PDT) > > From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Daniel Lang wrote: > > > > I'm looking for applications, that can display ACPI status > > > > information. Most wanted is battery status, but everything > > > > else would also be of interest (e.g. fan status, cpu speed, etc). > > > > > > > > In the ports I can only find applications, that require APM, > > > > not ACPI. The base system does not seem to provide something > > > > either? > > > > > > > > Did I miss something? > > > > > > At least for the battery status the APM applications work well for me > > > through the emulated APM interface of the ACPI. For fanspeed, > > > temperature and stuff like that this won't work. > > > > Xbattbar doesn't. It can grok whether the machine is on wall power or > > not, but that's it. It cannot determine the battery level, and always > > reports %100. This was built using the port under RELENG_5_1. > > Do you have 'apm_enable="YES"' in rc.conf? Even though you are running > ACPI, the parameter is still required if you want to be able to use > the APM emulation capability. With this present, both the Gnome > Battery Charge Monitor and the gkrellm battery builtin work just fine. > > Have you confirmed that ACPI is properly returning the values? 'sysctl > hw.acpi' will provide the information available from ACPI and might > also be a clue on the problem. 1:33pm ghast /home/jamie %cat /etc/rc.conf | grep apm apm_enable="YES" Yes, I do. this worked fine for me under 4-S, I was surprised when it didn't under 5.1-R. 1:34pm ghast /home/jamie %sysctl hw.acpi hw.acpi.supported_sleep_state: S1 S3 S4 S5 hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5 hw.acpi.sleep_button_state: S1 hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S1 hw.acpi.standby_state: S1 hw.acpi.suspend_state: S3 hw.acpi.sleep_delay: 0 hw.acpi.s4bios: 1 hw.acpi.verbose: 0 hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff: 1 hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 30 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 2982 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 3742 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 hw.acpi.acline: 1 hw.acpi.battery.life: -1 hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 hw.acpi.battery.units: 2 hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 1:48pm ghast /home/jamie %uname -a FreeBSD ghast 5.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10 #2: Wed Oct 15 12:14:18 EDT 2003 jamie@ghast:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ghast i386 Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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