[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#497202: Bug#497202: Bug#497202: xfce4-battery-plugin: My Computer is a Powerbook G3 (Pismo) with Battery but it shows 50%%.

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On dim., 2008-09-07 at 15:34 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On dim, 2008-09-07 at 15:12 +0200, Udo Wendler wrote:
> > > This is because powerpc boxes don't yet support sysfs attributes
> for
> > > battery power, irrc. Now that 2.6.26 has reached testing with
> > enabled
> > > ACPI_PROCFS_POWER it should be ok. Could you retry with latest
> > kernel?
> 
> Ho yes, I forgot. On pcc, no acpi stuff at all. You need to use
> apm2pmu
> which is disabled (because deprecated) on ppc. Correct solution would
> be
> to use PMU directly from battery plugin, but iirc upstream is not
> really
> interested in doing this. See
> http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3476

Ok, pmu is still unsupported on xfce4-battery-plugin (that might change
at some point, but not now). In the meantime, you can use
xfce4-power-manager which should work fine.

Cheers,


-- 
Yves-Alexis
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