From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 00:17:16 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 29AB916A4CF for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:17:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1FB743D41 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:17:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 47749 invoked by uid 1005); 6 Mar 2005 00:17:13 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 Clear:RC:1(217.232.235.159):. Processed in 0.111451 secs); 06 Mar 2005 00:17:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.224?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.232.235.159) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Mar 2005 00:17:13 -0000 Message-ID: <422A4C1D.60608@ultra-secure.de> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:17:33 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" References: <20050305192153.GA20692@genius.tao.org.uk> <422A1848.6000607@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <422A1848.6000607@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Josef Karthauser 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 00:17:16 -0000 Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop) wrote: > 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. Last time I asked the FreeBSD-KDE folks about the KDE-powermanagement stuff, I was told it was broken and being worked on... I don't run FreeBSD yet/anymore on my ACPI-cabable laptop and didn't watch the progress in this area, so I'd say best is to ask again. cheers, Rainer -- =================================================== ~ Rainer Duffner - rainer@ultra-secure.de ~ ~ Freising - Munich - Germany ~ ~ Unix - Linux - BSD - OpenSource - Security ~ ~ http://www.ultra-secure.de/~rainer/pubkey.pgp ~ ===================================================