From: Marco Peereboom (slashpeereboom.us)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2006 - 19:16:52 CST

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This is bad advice at the moment. ACPI has some memory leaks and
eventually will deplete device buffer memory. It is under heavy
development and nowhere near consumable quality.

Don't run with ACPI unless you are writing me some diffs.

Rogier Krieger wrote:
> On 3/1/06, Steffen Wendzel <cdp_xegmx.net> wrote:
>> I try to find out how many energy is left on my battery. I run
>> OpenBSD 3.8. My notebook does not support APM but ACPI
>
> In that case, you should probably give -current snapshots a spin.
> There has been quite a bit of work on ACPI since 3.8. Apart from the
> list/source-changes archives, you may want to take a look at several
> articles at undeadly.org regarding ACPI.
>
>
>> but there is no 'sensors' sub under 'hw'. It seems that this is
>> because my hardware is not supported because it works fine on
>> my workstation for the temperature stuff.
>
> Possibly, you have lm(4) or other sensor devices on your workstation.
> The sysctl output should show you which sensor it uses.
>
>
>> Is there any way to get the battery-values? I bootet knoppix 4.0
>> and it was able to display my battery-values in KDE [...]
>
> Fortunately, that means your hardware itself is probably OK. You
> should really try a -current snapshot to see whether ACPI support will
> work for you.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rogier
>
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> If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.

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