Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[NathanO]

Have installed it under 3.01. I do not see a file .asapmrc anywhere, yes I have enabled hidden files. Can not find it with Gtkfind or Pfind. It did change the background color for part of my taskbar to the left of the battery monitor.

NathanO

[NathanO]

One more thing, it made the 'free memory' to thin to read, but hovering over it with cursor show info, so I am not too worried.

NathanO

[NathanO]

Silly question.

On my tower I have an APC Back-UPS XS 1500. It has a USB connection that Win see's. Is there a program to monitor UPS's that will work for Puppy?

Rather then having to have two different programs, could this one have an option to do so? I am willing to be the tester, but 3.01 compatability would be a help as that is what I will stay with until 4.0x is fully released.

[Rickrandom]

It's probably my inability to read instructions, but trying Dingo Alpha 6, which has this built in, I get a sort of dark grey on grey, as the attached.

Do I need to run anything, or check any settings, or find out if my laptop contains any particular power management?

Laptop is an NEC i-select:

Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Memory 765MB (181MB used)

Frugal install on NTFS disk, booting via GRUB.

[kirk]

Rickrandom,

I don't know if I can help, I didn't write this app, just hacked it down a bit. If you have some time, open a console and type:

# asapm

Another battery monitor should open on your desktop. Copy and paste the terminal output here. (after highlighting something in the rxvt terminal window shift-delete copies to the clip board)

Also, your laptop does actually have the battery installed?

[kirk]

NathanO,

For 3.01 Brad_chuck made a battery monitor, I think he made it into a dotpup package, search the forum. I made a pet package out of one of his early versions that I've been using up until Dingo (doesn't work in dingo). I'll attach it.

[HairyWill]

I can duplicate this by specifying a non-existent battery.
What do you get for
ls /proc/acpi/battery

try
asapm -bat BAT1
instead or whatever your battery gets listed as

[Rickrandom]

[Rickrandom]

[kirk]

So Rickrandom, your saying that it's behavior is intermittent or random ? But seriously, that makes it difficult. Sometimes when you boot ram only Puppy can't find all of the kernel modules (eg drm modules won't load when ram only), don't know if that could be the problem or maybe a poor acpi implementation for your laptop or some problem with the app. If it's too unstable for you to use, you could try booting with acpi=off apm=on. Asapm supports apm too. This is assuming apm is supported on your laptop and it's safe to use. Safe meaning the fan still works.

[Rickrandom]

[BarryK]

Puppy 3.02alpha1 just uploaded, has the battery monitor. See my blog.

I haven't fixed the tray height yet, will do it right now.

[erikson]

I just installed Dingo-bat.pet on my laptop, running puppy 3.01. (I then restored the original .jwrmc-tray, with height adapted to 28 and with the asapm swallow pasted in).

Works okay.

Kudos to kirk!

[Dougal]

I rearranged the layout of the applet a bit, made it smaller and simpler, so it integrates better with different size panels and is more clear.
I'm attaching the source code, in case anyone is interested.
(note that I didn't modify the "embossed" background, so don't try using it that way)

[kirk]

Thanks Dougal, looks nice. Jwm tray height can be reduced from 28 with this one.