xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E?

[Gary Kline]

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 <kline at tao.thought.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at 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



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