Source obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmacpi/files/.
2008 November 14 2.2rc4
Change the way that we sleep/wait for activity, to use select
rather than a fixed-length sleep, supplied by Julien Blache of
Debian:
Hi,
The attached patch for wmacpi makes it use select() instead of
sleeping. It also adjusts the timeout of the select() call
depending on the blink & scroll options.
If scrolling is not activated, there's no reason to wake up
10x/sec. If blinking is activated, waking up once per second is
enough. If blinking is not activated, then we can wake up just to
update the data and we're fine.
With scrolling and blinking disabled, this saves a number of
wakeups and helps battery life. Unfortunately there's another
source of wakeups that's probably due to libdockapp that still
makes 6 wakeups/seconds (in another thread it seems).
With this patch wmacpi makes a best effort to match the sample
rate set by the user, but that's hardly an issue I think.
I haven't released this patch yet in Debian, so if you like it and
want to roll out a release, feel free :) Otherwise I'll add it to
the package soon.
Thanks,
JB.
Source obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmacpi/files/.
2007 January 10 2.2a1
Added a patch from Patrice Dumas to support newer versions of
libdockapp.
Updated email address in AUTHORS and manpages.
Source obtained from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmacpi/files/.
2003 November 23 1.99
Finally claimed the wmacpi name as my own . . .
Renamed wmacpi-ng and acpi-ng, renamed the header files, fixed up
the makefile.
For the Debian package, also made compilation of the command line
tool optional, defaulting to not building it. This is because
after the renaming, my acpi clashes with the acpi package that's
already in Debian. The command line functionality is now
accessible via the -w option to wmacpi.
This is wmacpi 1.99, so that I can have a release packaged and in
Debian before going to 2.0, so that any bugs that are left can be
found by all the extra users.
