Re: apm_emu module missing

[Cedar Maxwell <cedarmaxwell@mac.com>]

Hello Riccardo and Ed,

Was your patch ever accepted?  I am also looking to fix my XFCE battery
monitor.

Thanks,
Cedar

On Fri, 2024-10-18 at 11:29 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ed Robbins wrote:
> > However if the apm_emu module would be useful for other desktop
> > environments I can submit a patch to add it to the default debian
> > powerpc kernel config as suggested by Adrian? It appears the
> > GNUstep
> > battery monitor does support APM.
> 
> GNUstep Battery Monitor supports both ACPI, APM and PMU in that
> fallback 
> order, IIRC. It's my code!
> It started as APM many years ago, but that is mostly obsolete. I also
> wrote the PMU support, maybe it should be preferred if found?
> 
> But as you write, probably there are few or no monitors left
> supporting 
> APM. I hinted you to batmon to avoid it, if you wish.
> 
> Riccardo
>