> >Result: The vanilla gnome battery_applet now works for me (TM). > > A better way would be to have the via-pmu driver asynchronously (via > a timer) poll for state change and update some static status datas. > This way, on core99, we can just disable the polling timer and rely > on automatic notifications done by the hw. The /proc interface would > then just output the last status.
Just as fine. What routine is processing the automatic notification, and what does the data format look like? I guess /dev/pmu will have to return buffered data as well on core99? Michael