Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:17:33 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: "Mark A-J. Raught (from the laptop)" <mraught@acm.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Out of battery indicator. Message-ID: <422A4C1D.60608@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <422A1848.6000607@acm.org> References: <20050305192153.GA20692@genius.tao.org.uk> <422A1848.6000607@acm.org>
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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 ~ ===================================================
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