From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yesterday I was hanging around the debian web site and I saw there's a new > package on called acpi-something and I was wondering if anyone knows what > it is about. Is it related to the sourceforge.net acpi project? I've used > the patch acpi from sourceforge.net for my kernel 2.4.17, and, although > limited, it recognizes battery, AC power, buttons and stuff. THe thing I'm > missing is an applet to monitor battery charge and the battery lasts just > about one and half hour with the ACPI I've got. Does anyone know if this > acpi package would help me anyhow?
It would help if you knew exactly what it was called. All I see on woody are acpid (yes, you should have this), powermgmt-base (you need this, too), wmacpi and akpi (both essentially battery monitors). I haven't used wmacpi, but I've used akpi which has a nice little browser that makes debugging your ACPI problems a bit easier - and I know Thomas is interested in keeping it up with acpi developments. acpid allows you to create scripts that can react to buttons and other ACPI events. powermgmt-base doesn't do much, but it provides utilities that can tell you whether you have acpi or apm available and whether you're on AC power. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
