Monitoring battery status in X via acpi

[Mark Santcroos]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:47:14PM +0200, Markus D. wrote:
> Hm, there really is a /dev/apm, and it IS displaying correct values
> (ac-line, battery percentage etc.). Perhaps some sort of "compatibilty mode" ;-) 

Well, indeed, the /dev/apm while using acpi is just an emulation layer
around acpi so that old programs still work.

> Gnome battstat just complains about disabled apm, but displays correct
> values nevertheless.

Does this get rid of the complaints?
# apm -e enable

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