Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Schik
On 2008-07-07 23:48:17 +0200 Riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé repository for getting power status on FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well. If this is of any use to you, feel free to steal it - it's BSDL. Didn't Andreas Schick write an

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Jul., 00:40, Riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B A T T E R Y    M O N I T O R  0.3 --- WHAT IS IT: Battery monitor is a small utility that displays the status of your laptop battery (charge/discharge and status). Currently, it works only on Linux with

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread David Chisnall
On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by Chris Vetter. I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé repository for getting

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by Chris Vetter. I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread David Chisnall
On 7 Jul 2008, at 15:07, Fred Kiefer wrote: David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by Chris Vetter. I've

DBus Framework (Was: ANN: BatMon 0.3)

2008-07-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: On 7 Jul 2008, at 15:07, Fred Kiefer wrote: David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches

Re: DBus Framework (Was: ANN: BatMon 0.3)

2008-07-07 Thread David Chisnall
On 7 Jul 2008, at 16:00, Fred Kiefer wrote: David Chisnall wrote: On 7 Jul 2008, at 15:07, Fred Kiefer wrote: David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread Riccardo
Hi, I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé repository for getting power status on FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well. If this is of any use to you, feel free to steal it - it's BSDL. Didn't Andreas Schick write an Etoile menulet that used DBus to determine the battery status? It

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread David Chisnall
On 7 Jul 2008, at 22:48, Riccardo wrote: I don't like the idea of depending on DBus. All this power checking has too many layers, indirections and uncertainity already. Now Linux has also /sys filesystem and I bet I will end needing to support it alongside of /proc. Linux completely

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
Hi, David Chisnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Jul 2008, at 22:48, Riccardo wrote: I don't like the idea of depending on DBus. All this power checking has too many layers, indirections and uncertainity already. Now Linux has also /sys filesystem and I bet I will end needing to

ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-06 Thread Riccardo
B A T T E R YM O N I T O R 0.3 --- WHAT IS IT: Battery monitor is a small utility that displays the status of your laptop battery (charge/discharge and status). Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and