From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 20:03:28 2004 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 1144A16A4CE for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:03:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8722743D2F for ; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:03:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7TK3N98087108; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7TK3LfK081892; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7TK3Kr8081891; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:03:19 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20040829200319.GB81746@thought.org> References: <20040829003053.GA91309@thought.org> <20040829194538.B2DAC5D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040829194538.B2DAC5D04@ptavv.es.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E? 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, 29 Aug 2004 20:03:28 -0000 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 > > 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. thankee, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix