Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > I don't quite follow you. Without the daemon my understanding is that > > the kernel ACPI interface will not power off on it's own. I could be > > wrong, however, and have not run without the daemon

Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > I don't quite follow you. Without the daemon my understanding is that > > the kernel ACPI interface will not power off on it's own. I could be > > wrong, however, and have not run without the daemo

Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > I don't quite follow you. Without the daemon my understanding is that > the kernel ACPI interface will not power off on it's own. I could be > wrong, however, and have not run without the daemon. :) > It actually does. I don't know how, but it does.

Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Alessandro Speranza
ssing and I thought it would need some patches to work with ACPI; I'll try that. For the rest, I tried the acpi package, and it works, but it gives me only information about the battery, as apparently thermal zones are available on my laptop. Cheers Ale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > I don't quite follow you. Without the daemon my understanding is that > the kernel ACPI interface will not power off on it's own. I could be > wrong, however, and have not run without the daemon. :) > It actually does. I don't know how, but it does.

Re: acpi package

2002-05-07 Thread Alessandro Speranza
ssing and I thought it would need some patches to work with ACPI; I'll try that. For the rest, I tried the acpi package, and it works, but it gives me only information about the battery, as apparently thermal zones are available on my laptop. Cheers Ale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: acpi package

2002-05-06 Thread Sam Clegg
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:20:09PM +0200, Jaume Guasch wrote: > The battery applet in the gnome-applets package has an option to use > either APM or ACPI. Load the battery and look at the properties dialog. > > I use APM, so I don't know wether it really works. It doesn't. (for me) (in woody)

Re: acpi package

2002-05-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Derek Broughton" | No, but if you don't set a Reply-to address on your list mail, you can | reasonably expect people to do "reply to all" and end up sending responses | to both you and the list. Even people like me, who try always to respond | only to the list, sometimes make mistakes. Uhm,

Re: acpi package

2002-05-06 Thread Sam Clegg
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:20:09PM +0200, Jaume Guasch wrote: > The battery applet in the gnome-applets package has an option to use > either APM or ACPI. Load the battery and look at the properties dialog. > > I use APM, so I don't know wether it really works. It doesn't. (for me) (in woody

Re: acpi package

2002-05-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Derek Broughton" | No, but if you don't set a Reply-to address on your list mail, you can | reasonably expect people to do "reply to all" and end up sending responses | to both you and the list. Even people like me, who try always to respond | only to the list, sometimes make mistakes. Uhm,

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on >> remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in >> a convenient, standard way without needing to parse the conte

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on >> remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in >> a convenient, standard way without needing to parse the cont

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > Yes. With acpid you can make it respond to events. I just hacked the > > script supplied to call 'poweroff' when I hit the power button so my > > machine turns off under ACPI. You had to 'hack' it?

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > It's a pet peeve of mine that posters often get annoyed if they get two > copies (not suggesting that you are - some people get quite irate), but it > seems to me that it's the initial poster's responsibility to ensure the > desired routing, NOT the

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > It would help if you knew exactly what it was called. > > Ok. Thanks a lot you all for you replies. > The acpi package on woody is: > acpi-0.0.5-1 and it

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Clegg
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:28:08PM +0100, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > The acpi package on woody is: > acpi-0.0.5-1 and it's on > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/acpi.html That's sid isn't it? I am running woody and I have no acpi package. -- sam clegg :: [

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on > remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in a > convenient, standard way without needing to parse the content of the > ACPI /proc interface yourself. That's rig

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
> I've received this message twice, is there a transmission problem? No, but if you don't set a Reply-to address on your list mail, you can reasonably expect people to do "reply to all" and end up sending responses to both you and the list. Even people like me, who try always to respond only to t

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On 3 May 2002, David Poisson wrote: > I'm guessing it was sent to you and to the list as well. Can you confirm > by checking the addresses it was sent to in both case? That's right, I didn't notice that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread David Poisson
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

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > It would help if you knew exactly what it was called. Ok. Thanks a lot you all for you replies. The acpi package on woody is: acpi-0.0.5-1 and it's on http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/acpi.html I've patched my 2.4.17 kerne

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Hi again folks. > I've received this message twice, is there a transmission problem? No, after losing some data to a filesystem corruption with a test kernel, some mailer configuration was lost at my end and the package sent a copy to both you and t

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > Yes. With acpid you can make it respond to events. I just hacked the > > script supplied to call 'poweroff' when I hit the power button so my > > machine turns off under ACPI. You had to 'hack' it

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
es. > > > 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 hal

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > It's a pet peeve of mine that posters often get annoyed if they get two > copies (not suggesting that you are - some people get quite irate), but it > seems to me that it's the initial poster's responsibility to ensure the > desired routing, NOT the

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > > It would help if you knew exactly what it was called. > > Ok. Thanks a lot you all for you replies. > The acpi package on woody is: > acpi-0.0.5

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Clegg
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:28:08PM +0100, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > The acpi package on woody is: > acpi-0.0.5-1 and it's on > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/acpi.html That's sid isn't it? I am running woody and I have no acpi package. -- sam clegg :: [

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Sure. What it lets you do, today, is display the information on > remaining battery life, system temperature and AC power connection in a > convenient, standard way without needing to parse the content of the > ACPI /proc interface yourself. That's ri

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Udo Burghardt
Am Freitag, 3. Mai 2002 11:44 schrieb Alessandro Speranza: > THe thing I'm missing is an applet to monitor > battery charge If you are using KDE: http://k-acpi.sourceforge.net/ > Does anyone know if this acpi package would > help me anyhow? Sorry, don't kn

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
ct? 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 AC

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
> I've received this message twice, is there a transmission problem? No, but if you don't set a Reply-to address on your list mail, you can reasonably expect people to do "reply to all" and end up sending responses to both you and the list. Even people like me, who try always to respond only to

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On 3 May 2002, David Poisson wrote: > I'm guessing it was sent to you and to the list as well. Can you confirm > by checking the addresses it was sent to in both case? That's right, I didn't notice that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread David Poisson
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

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
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 let you query the ACPI information on the command line, just like the apm command does. Not much more than that, though. You are probably better off with AP

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Clegg
anyone know if this > acpi package would help me anyhow? There is a windowmake tool (wmacpi) I think. However, any such tool written at the moment would have to parse the /proc data from ACPI. This is not yet a fixed format. Also, I think there are plans to write a C API to the battery i

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > > It would help if you knew exactly what it was called. Ok. Thanks a lot you all for you replies. The acpi package on woody is: acpi-0.0.5-1 and it's on http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/acpi.html I've patched my 2.4.17

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > Hi again folks. > I've received this message twice, is there a transmission problem? No, after losing some data to a filesystem corruption with a test kernel, some mailer configuration was lost at my end and the package sent a copy to both you and

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
es. > > > 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 hal

acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
.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? Cheers

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Udo Burghardt
Am Freitag, 3. Mai 2002 11:44 schrieb Alessandro Speranza: > THe thing I'm missing is an applet to monitor > battery charge If you are using KDE: http://k-acpi.sourceforge.net/ > Does anyone know if this acpi package would > help me anyhow? Sorry, don't kn

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Broughton
ct? 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 AC

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
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 let you query the ACPI information on the command line, just like the apm command does. Not much more than that, though. You are probably better off with AP

Re: acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Sam Clegg
anyone know if this > acpi package would help me anyhow? There is a windowmake tool (wmacpi) I think. However, any such tool written at the moment would have to parse the /proc data from ACPI. This is not yet a fixed format. Also, I think there are plans to write a C API to the battery i

acpi package

2002-05-03 Thread Alessandro Speranza
.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? Cheers