On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:33:13PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Mayuresh Kathe
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > > > > I googled for "monitoring battery openbsd" but got nothing
> > satisfactory.
> > > >
> > > > apm(8)
> > >
> > > Thanks for that Antoine.
> > >
> > > I tried 'apm -b' to get the battery status, but it showed 255, which
> > > is 'unknown', is it because my laptop isn't properly supported?
> > >
> > > Is there anything I could do to help developers support it better?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > ~Mayuresh
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If its an non-apm laptop you can check it via acpi. Use sysctl and
> > check the hw section. There it was how many volts left.
>
> How do I check whether its a non-apm laptop?
> It's a ThinkPad R61i, dmesg below;
>
> OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz ("GenuineIntel"
> 686-class) 1.47 GHz
> cpu0:
> FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR
> real mem = 526667776 (502MB)
> avail mem = 501596160 (478MB)
> mainbus0 at root
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 06/28/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @
> 0xfdca0, SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (71 entries)
> bios0: vendor LENOVO version "7OET24WW (1.03 )" date 06/28/2007
> bios0: LENOVO 8932A32
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev 3.0 @ 0xfdc30/0x3d0
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfde80/304 (17 entries)
> pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum
> pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 17 Interrupt Routing table entries
> pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found
> pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing
> pcibios0: PCI bus #22 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000! 0xd0000/0x1a00 0xd1a00/0x1000
> 0xe0000/0x10000!
> acpi at mainbus0 not configured
^^^^^^^
enable acpi in your kernel
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