Re: ACPI battery monitor?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erich Schubert" <erich@debian.org>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: ACPI battery monitor?
> > > actually the gnome2 applet does support acpi. at least partially...
> > > well, it makes my system almost unuseable, because it querys the
static
> > > info also every second, which temporarily blocks my system...
> >
> > Works great for me with acpi: gnome-applets2-2.0.1-4
>
> Doesn't work here: 2.0.3-1 Mouse moves only choppy.
> gkacpi didn't cause my mouse to move choppy, neither does
> while true; do cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state; sleep 1; done
> but i can reproduce it when i do
> while true; do cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info; sleep 1; done
>
> But i guess it's hardware (and even BIOS) dependent.
Yup. I had the same problem. This crude patch
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88553
solved the problem for me.
grusz
pHilipp Zabel
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