2003 September 23 0.92
Fix a few more bugs, and include an option to allow the user to
specify how often to sample the ACPI data - some BIOSes disable
all interrupts while reading from the battery, which apparently
causes some interactivity issues. I have no idea why reading once
every three seconds (which is our default), but there've been some
complaints.
Also fixed acpi-ng to properly handle the -a option.
2003 August 6 0.91
Fix a problem I'm seeing with docking the app - if the window name
is set to "acpi" rather than "apm" it doesn't dock . . .
2003 July 16 0.90
Make the time display show '--:--' instead of '00:00' when the
time remaining is 0 - I think this is reasonable, since it'll only
get into this state when the present rate value is 0. This only
happens when the battery is fully charged and neither discharging
or charging, or when the battery is completely drained. In any of
these states the time remaining is of very little interest, so we
don't lose anything. We also get to handle the (sadly, very
common) case where the ACPI subsystem doesn't report sane values
for the things we depend on.
2003 July 11 0.50a2
Make the time display show nothing (as opposed to 00:00) when the
time remaining is unknown, as requested by Emma Jane Hogbin.
Respect the critical level specified on the command line, and add
a new message to differentiate between the command line critical
level and the critical state reported by the battery.
Speed up the message scrolling, so that there isn't quite such a
painful delay between repeats. Also, up the speed when the battery
is low, more when it's critical, and scroll continuously when it's
hardware critical.
Finally, add support for disabling the blinking power and battery
glyphs from the command line, as requested by Sebastian
Henschel. We still blink the battery glyph when the battery
reports hardware critical level - I think that's worth being a bit
annoying about.
Also, added an acpi-ng manpage.
2003 July 11 0.50a1
Properly fix the AC adapter issue - it's not much use adding the
infrastructure and then forgetting to fix the code that uses it.
Fix the time disiplay so that it doesn't try to display values
greater than 99:59, since the display area won't fit anything
beyond that.
2003 July 10 0.50a
Bugfixes, to handle two problems: the case where something like
the present rate or some such is "unknown" (reported initially by
Emma Jane Hogbin, and where the AC adapter is called something
other than "AC" (reported by Sebastian Henschel). This an 'a'
release because I can't test these myself . . .
2003 July 6 0.50
Finally got rid of that annoying button - that space now contains
a 'B 1' or 'B 2' (only those two at present, since I'm too lazy to
fix it so that the number is generic. It should work fine for
anyone who doesn't have a freakish system with more than two
batteries . . .)
A few more code cleanups.
2003 July 1 0.19
libacpi cleanups and reworking - we now handle the charging
battery case properly, it seems.
Also, some attempts to make error printing a bit cleaner; still a
long way to go on that, though . . .
2003 June 24 0.15
Removed process_plugin_timer(), since it was doing nothing useful
at all . . .
2003 June 23 0.14
Removed libapm.c - wmacpi-ng is specifically for ACPI, with no APM
support.
2003 June 23 0.13
Some more code cleanups, designed to move libacpi to more of a
library than something built into wmacpi-ng. This is useful with
the seperate programs, though at present it's not used much.
2003 June 21 0.12
Added a command line tool, acpi-ng to query battery status from
the command line.
2003 May 30 0.11
Implemented multiple battery support, and averaging of the samples
in an attempt to even out the jumpiness of the timer.
2003 May 30 0.10
More major code cleanups: in particular the handling of the power
panel and the message has been cleaned up so that it's actually
sane and clean.
Next step from here is to actually implement handling of multiple
batteries, so that if there's a fully charge second battery
available it reports the correct time remaining (based on the
present rate of power consumption and the sum of the two battery's
remaining capacities).
2003 May 29 0.3
Some major reworking of the internals, to help fix the handling of
multiple batteries and such things.
2003 May 26 0.2a
Code cleanups to fix various problems with corner cases.
2003 May 26 0.2
Added support for multiple batteries: I took the simple route of
displaying only one battery per instance - to do more I'd need to
hack with the display code, and I'm not ready for that yet.
Added a -m option to specify the battery number to monitor.
2003 May 26 0.1
Changed package completely, to support the new ACPI code as of
2.4.21-rc2.
Since this code hasn't been touched in more than a year, I figure
I might as well have a go at hacking on it . . .
-- Simon Fowler, <simon@dreamcraft.com.au>
2002 Feb 17 1.34
Updated ACPI statistics gathering code for the latest ACPI patch from
Intel. Now uses/checks for subsystem version 20020214+. Redone the version
check a little bit.
2001 Apr 29 1.33
Little fix to ACPI version check so that I don't have to make a new
version each time a new kernel comes out
2001 Mar 24 1.32
Split ACPI and APM portions in different source files
Added power_init() function - handles checking subsystem presence,
version, etc. Enumerates batteries in ACPI implementation
ACPI: Beginnings of multiple battery support - not fully implemented
ACPI: Get the battery ID from /proc/acpi/battery instead of hard-coding
it in - also helps with multi battery stuff
Added some stupid command line help
Added -c option to set critical battery alarm level. Defaults to
10 percent, and added -b option to make noise when this critical level
is reached
APM: Updated for critical alarm stuff
Made a 20 color "low" quality pixmap for machines running 8bit displays
Updated README with some stuff, made separate INSTALL file
2001 Mar 13 1.31
Update for intel ACPI release version 20010313
Minor updates for new /proc layout
2001 Mar 07 1.3
Update for intel ACPI release verion 20010302
Proc format changed a little bit, so updates were necessary.
Added a check for specific acpi subsystem version - since each
new version seems to have a new interface, better be safe than
sorry :)
As usual, please test and report to me.
This ONLY works with linux acpica 20010302. Download this version from
http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm - it's a
patch against 2.4.2
2001 Feb 28 1.21
Finally read through the ACPI specification. Hah, they had all my
questions answered :) Thus,
Confirmed remaining percentage formula (correct)
Now calculate "time remaining" according to the spec formula
Removed "battery load" hack since we now have "time remaining"
Fixed bug in display_percentage (10% didn't display right)
Released version 1.21
2001 Feb 23 1.2
Added support for ACPI. This is very untested, and not very clean.
This has been tested on machines with only ONE battery, and only
with kernel 2.4.2 (that's where ACPI started to work for me)
Added some hackery to do with ACPI. Check README.
Released 1.2
2001 Jan 16 1.1
Fixed all the stuff so that wmapm works as advertised:
Fixed dumb bug where after charging was done new message didn't scroll.
Added support for fucked APM bioses that display stuff wrong. (See
README to learn how to enable it. Obviously, it's disabled by default)
Reorganized apminfo structure and got rid of redundancy.
Reorganized acquire_apm_info. All APM data is processed there.
Fixed display_state to do the Right Thing.
Fixed red blinking button to actually blink on critical battery, and
to stop when it isn't critical anymore. I don't think it ever worked
right in 1.0.
Created ChangeLog.
Updated README.
Released 1.1.