From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 05:21:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DA7106566C for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:21:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002508FC27 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:21:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.5) with SMTP id PAA16831; Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:19:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:19:40 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: mato In-Reply-To: <48031338.5050801@users.sf.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: battery monitor with KDE 64 bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:21:53 -0000 On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, mato wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > You may also like to have a look at sysutils/asapm which I've been using > > for years to good effect in KDE. Despite the name, and the initial > > blurb in pkg_descr, it works fine (better, actually) with ACPI, as > > detailed in the manual. It's also fully configurable regarding display > > colours etc, and if the remaining runtime isn't directly available, it > > can monitor state of charge over time to provide pretty good estimates, > > along with configurable setpoints for 'warning' and 'alarm' colours. I > > can't say whether it works on amd64 though .. > > > > On later (i386) machines I tend to use gkrellm which includes CPU temp, > > speed and much more, but again I don't know if it works with amd64. > Ian, thanks! :-) My pleasure Martin .. I've not heard of anyone else running it before :) > I've been using wmbsdbatt but it isn't configurable at all and often I > just didn't notice my battery gone flat. Now I've switched to asapm > which provides better visual attention (battery turning red) and more > importantly I could configure it to produce notifications via > notify-send and xmessage, so it's unlikely I'll miss my battery running > flat. :-)) Yeah, good old-fashioned X configuration. I use apmd notifications on this old 300MHz 800x600 beast for also good old-fashioned /dev/speaker tunes for battery warnings, but haven't yet explored xmessage - thanks. FWIW, I've also long used sysutils/ascpu as a 60sec visual load monitor, matching asapm's 'look', res. size and low cpu usage. At ~7days uptime: 3680 smithi 8 0 2344K 448K nanslp 44:06 0.00% 0.00% asapm 3681 smithi 8 0 2564K 448K nanslp 41:53 0.00% 0.00% ascpu 3514 root 96 0 1280K 264K select 36:32 0.00% 0.00% moused cheers, Ian