Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:11:55 -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: <20040829231155.A4C385D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:19 PDT." <20040829200319.GB81746@thought.org>
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This is a multipart MIME message. --==_Exmh_-2865111550 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:19 -0700 > From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> > > 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. In V5, /dev is no longer simply a directory on a normal FFS file system containing some rather odd entries that describe device access. This has been replaced by devfs, a special file system for devices which is mounted on the normal file system, usually at root (/). Instead of creating static entries with mknod, devfs creates entries "on the fly" from call made by the device driver. Devices are not created until the driver actually probes and finds the device and are destroyed when the device is removed (for removable devices). This was needed to support USB, Firewire and similar devices which are dynamically added and removed from the system. I might also mention that you need to use /etc/devfs.conf to customize thing like device protections and symlinks (such as /dev/dvd). devfs is primarily for setting up devices for jails, but it is also the best way to handle simpler customizations. I will attach my /etc/devfs.conf file as a rather trivial example. Note that you need the lines: apm_enable="YES" apmd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. The quotation marks are required! Also, is APM being probed at boot time? You should see something like: apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 very early in the boot. I don't build APM into the kernel but add: apm_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, but it should be fine in the kernel. Make sure that ACPI is disabled and apm enabled in /boot/device.hints. hint.apm.0.disabled="0" hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" hint.apm.0.flags="0x20" If ACPI starts up, APM won't. These hints entries take care of both issues. -- 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 --==_Exmh_-2865111550 Content-Type: text/plain ; name="devfs.conf"; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: devfs.conf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="devfs.conf" # Copyright (c) 2003 The FreeBSD Project # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions # are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. # 2. 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