Martin Godisch wrote: > wmbattery doesn't work anymore since linux was upgraded from 2.6.24 to > 2.6.25. It says: > > error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to > connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory > Error: No APM, ACPI, HAL or SPIC support detected. > > strace log shows: > > open("/proc/acpi/battery", > O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = -1 ENOENT (No such > file or directory) > open("/proc/acpi/ac_adapter", > O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = -1 ENOENT (No such > file or directory) > > These files in /proc/acpi are gone, indeed. It appears battery and power > status information can be found in /sys/class/power_supply now.
If you're running a kernel that no longer supports those method, you need to install hal, which wmbattery recommends. I can upgrade that to a dependency. I am *not* going to try to deal with the kernel's new power reporting scheme myself. -- see shy jo
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