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Date:      Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:56:30 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>
Cc:        gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gnomapplet2-2.8.0/battstat wrong apm path
Message-ID:  <1096746990.70718.3.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <415EB072.2060006@webonaut.com>
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On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 09:43, Franz Klammer wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > |> |> Thanks, but I've recently added ACPI support to battstat.  Does
> > |> that not
> > |> |> work for you?
> > |> |
> > |> |
> > |> |
> > |> | what exactly should work (or not)?
> > |> |
> > |> | - display of battery state is working
> > |> | -  remaining load time is always 0
> > |>
> > |> Well, the remaining time when unplugged should be non-zero.  The
> > |> remaining charge time may be undefined.  Do you have ACPI enabled? =20
> > That
> > |> is, does /dev/acpi exist?
> > |>
> > |
> > | /dev/acpi exists and readable for everyone .
> > | if unplugged the remaining time is "undefined".
> >
> > Okay, try gnomeapplets2-2.8.0_4, and see if that helps.  Note: you may
> > have to wait up to 2 seconds after unplugging AC before the applet=20
> > updates.
> >
>=20
> after sleeping iver this i've seen that hw.acpi.battery.time is always -1=
 .
> the applet can't get any data.

Yeah.  I installed it on my laptop last night, and it works fine.=20
However, it's only as good as the ACPI support in the BIOS and in the
kernel.

Joe

>=20
> franz.
>=20
>=20
> > Joe
> >
> > |
> > | franz.
> > |
> > |> Joe
> > |>
> > |> |
> > |> | compiling currently some ports - can do any tests
> > |> | later.
> > |> |
> > |> | franz.
> > |> |
> > |> |>
> > |> |> Joe
> > |> |
> > |
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