Two bugs in xfce4 - Battery Monitor

[Luis Miguel García]

edscott, I have battery compiled into the kernel now. I only wanted to 
make this plugin more user-friendly and easier to use. No more.

Bye!!

edscott wilson garcia wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:15, Luis Miguel García wrote:
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>>well... I have grouped the two bugs in only one.
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>>I have only ACPI runnning. No APM. If I don't load battery.ko module, 
>>the plugin doesn't show the temperature of my cpu (even when they are 
>>unrelated). If I load battery.ko module into the kernel, the temperature 
>>appears.
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>>Any tip?
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>It seems that the acpi part for the temperature is compiled into the
>battery.ko module or a different module that gets loaded when battery.ko
>is insmod'ed. Why don't you just compile the acpi support for
>temperature directly into the kernel?
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>>edscott wilson garcia wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:42, Luis Miguel García wrote:
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>>>>Hi... I'm testing the battery monitor. I'm only interested in the 
>>>>temperature of the cpu feature, but I have found two bugs:
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>>>>1- The pluging only shows a "bar" when the panel is in "vertical" mode. 
>>>>If I need to see all the options, I must set the panel horizontal and 
>>>>then get back to vertical. Then, all the data is shown.
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>>>I cannot confirm such behaviour. I use the panel in vertical mode and
>>>can turn all options on/off by using the "properties" dialog for the
>>>plugin.
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>>>>2- If battery.ko module of the kernel is not loaded, the plugin doesn't 
>>>>work at all. I'll try to explain me (i'm not native english speaker). 
>>>>When xfce starts, it reads the temperature one time, and then it's never 
>>>>refresh it unless I do a "modprobe battery". Then, the temperature is 
>>>>correctly updated. I think that having battery support in acpi must not 
>>>>be a requeriment because this plugin has other features (such as 
>>>>temperatura of cpu) that doesn't rely on the battery module.
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>>>Battery and temperature are independent from each other. The plugin
>>>apparently can use either acpi and apm. I'm not familiar with the apm
>>>part but AFAICT using only acpi the updates are done correctly. Maybe
>>>you have a kernel with both apm and acpi enabled, which is a recipe for
>>>trouble.
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>>>>What do you think?
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>>>The temperature and fan could probably go into an independent plugin,
>>>but since they would also be polling acpi, it would unnecessarily
>>>increase overhead.  
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>>>>Thanks!!
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