Two bugs in xfce4 - Battery Monitor

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 18:49, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> 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.

The acpi stuff is not very user friendly in linux. It is a bit more
friendly in FreeBSD, but still requires some work to get it set up. Ni
modos.

See ya.

> 
> Bye!!
> 
> edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 16:15, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>well... I have grouped the two bugs in only one.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Any tip?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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?
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:42, Luis Miguel García wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hi... I'm testing the battery monitor. I'm only interested in the 
> >>>>temperature of the cpu feature, but I have found two bugs:
> >>>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>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.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>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.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>What do you think?
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>The temperature and fan could probably go into an independent plugin,
> >>>but since they would also be polling acpi, it would unnecessarily
> >>>increase overhead.  
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Thanks!!
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