Release Candidates :: DSL v4.0rc4



Quote (roberts @ Sep. 21 2007,19:26)
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Have you looked at conky as a replacment for torsmo ?
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Does conky work for the Libettro and other non-standard battery names? I have no way to know. Open to suggestions.

Regards Conky. I have no experiences and can not test alot of things with different batteries either. I just noticed some notes on torsmo being no longer maintained. It also says that conky was based on torsmo. More features. Its not so much the extra features but solving the torsmo issues that it might be good for.
This conky thing seems to have a recent build http://conky.sourceforge.net/
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From the source code Conky (v1.4.7) looks like it will have no problems with 'non-standard' battery names so long as it is not compiled with the flag set. It needs X11 development libraries, version 6.8.2 - the version in the repository is 4.3.0 - anyone have a more recent set available as a dsl/uci/unc?

I'll try the version in the repository (v1.3.3) on my Libretto, which looks as though it should be OK too.
The xorg72 development headers are in mydsl testing - xorg72-dev.tar.gz

I see from the torsmo readme that:
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battery  (num)  Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).

- maybe we can switch back to torsmo-0.17 and the users with weird battery numbers can modify their .torsmorc?

BTW, it looks as though the "swap file used" calculation is hard-coded into torsmo-0.18 without a check for zero values, hence the floating point exception when there is no swap file.
Quote (Juanito @ Sep. 23 2007,14:27)
The xorg72 development headers are in mydsl testing - xorg72-dev.tar.gz

I see from the torsmo readme that:
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battery  (num)  Remaining capasity in ACPI or APM battery. ACPI battery number can be given as argument (default is BAT0).

- maybe we can switch back to torsmo-0.17 and the users with weird battery numbers can modify their .torsmorc?

BTW, it looks as though the "swap file used" calculation is hard-coded into torsmo-0.18 without a check for zero values, hence the floating point exception when there is no swap file.

Thanks for the info on xorg72

The problems with v0.18 don't seem limited to the swap file issue. Running DSL in an emulator (VirtualBox on M$XP) I get the floating point exception. Torsmo can be started with a command line argument to display individual settings & it 'sometimes' works. There are obviously a quite a few problems with torsmo.

In v0.17 the only variation to the battery name that can be made is to call it BAT0 or BAT1 or BAT2,..... The Libretto (using ACPI not APM) I have calls it MBAT & so v0.17 doesn't work (v0.18 works flawlessly on that machine!).

Conky is looking a better bet as it is currently supported & developed. the version in the repository works OK with DSL in the emulator. I'll report on how it gets on with the Libretto during the next few days.
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