battstat-applet-2.0.4 vs Gnome-2

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: 21 Apr 2003 12:53:08 -0400
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
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> On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:50, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 17:41, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 12:39, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >=20
> > > >=20
> >=20
> > <snipped>
> >=20
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > The reason for my not being sure about this, is the fact that in =
> the
> > > > > > Makefile there reads:
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > USE_GNOME=3D      gnomehack gnomeprefix libpanel
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > As against what I recall reading in FreeBSD-Gnome advisories abou=
> t that
> > > > > > line reading "USE_GNOMENG", or something like that - as an indica=
> tion as
> > > > > > to the port's Gnome-2 status..,
> > > > > >=20
> > > > > > Has this flag-setting changed, then?
> > > > >=20
> > > > > This port will not work in GNOME 2.  Anders is correct, in that the=
>  new
> > > > > battery applet in gnomeapplets2 should be comparable.
> > > >=20
> > > > Is this:
> > > >=20
> > > > Applications > System Tools > System Monitor
> > > >=20
> > > > that you're referring to?
> > >=20
> > > No.  Add to Panel > Utility > Battery Charge Monitor
> >=20
> > Thanks for that, Joe. I got this error box:
> >=20
> > Can't open the APM device
> >=20
> > Make sure you have read permission to the APM device.
> >=20
> > Can only root do this, or something? Sorry for the trivial questions..,
> > this is the first *nix-laptop for me..,=20
> 
> Do you have apm in the kernel, and apmd and apm enabled in rc.conf?  If
> so, just chmod the /devl/apm* devices so you can access them.

See 'man fbtab'.
I have:
/dev/ttyv0	0666	/dev/console
/dev/ttyv0	0666	/dev/pcaudio:/dev/pcaudioctl
/dev/ttyv0	0666	/dev/acd0c:/dev/cuaa0
but this is a single user system.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634