On Monday 18 September 2006 21:10, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 08:56:32AM -0700, Subcommander l0r3zz wrote: > > Greetz, > > What do people use to do power management on their thinkpads? > > I've google openbsd.org and can't seem to find any tools that work on the > > desktop. > > I run Gnome and it seems that i want gnome-power, but it doesn't seem to > > be incuded in the pors tree. > > > > I'm mostly interested in knowing how much time I have till my battery > > dies. (Not fun when your in the middle of a compile ) > > I believe it is available under hw.sensors (see sysctl(8)) for most > machines. Though I must admit nothing is shown on my 390X; more recent > models are more likely to be supported.
On my X31 hw.sensors doesn't show anything. But, 'apm' does tell you that, and some other things (you may need to run apmd) > Joachim -- viq
