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RoguePacket
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 Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 6:19 am Post subject: Laptop: Getting aKpi to monitor your battery state |
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I just got gentoo 1.4rc2 running with kernel 2.4.20 with the newest acpi patch. After a day of emergeing kde, I found out that kde doesn't monitor your battery with the new patch. So I used aKpi to do it, and ran into some problem that might confuse a newbie. So I hope to this helps.
First you need to download the aKpi source from http://akpi.scmd.at/. Now you need to extract with
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$ bunzip2 akpi-x.x.x.tar.bz2
$ tar -xvf akpi-x.x.x.tar
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replace x with your version. Now cd into akpi-x.x.x/source and open up the Makefile and add the kde paths /usr/kde/3/include and /usr/kde/3/lib like so
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$ cd akpi-x.x.x/source
$ nano -w Makefile
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and modify the INCPATH and LIBS with the paths mentioned above
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INCPATH = -I$(QTDIR)/include -I$(QTDIR)/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/kde/3/include
LIBS = $(SUBLIBS) -L$(QTDIR)/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/kde/3/lib -lqt-mt -lXext -lX11 -lm -lkdeui
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and save it. and simply type make
Hopefully you'll get no errors and you'll have a file called akpi. Now you'll want to copy this file to a place that will be executed, I put it in /usr/kde/3/bin so su to root and put your root password in
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$ su root
Password:
# cp akpi /usr/kde/3/bin/akpi
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Now you need to copy over the pics for the application from pics and put it in the directory /usr/share/apps/akpi/pics/ (you should still be in the source folder of akpi.x.x.x)
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# mkdir /usr/share/apps
# mkdir /usr/share/apps/akpi/
# cp -r pics /usr/share/apps/akpi/pics
# chmod -R a+rX /usr/share/apps/akpi
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okay, now you need to enable glx in your XF86Config file and exit root
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# nano -w /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Module"
# This loads the GLX module
Load "glx"
EndSection
# exit
$ akpi &
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Now you should have a battery in your tray showing you your battery life. If you want to make sure it loads up at start up of KDE do this
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$ cd ~/.kde/Autostart/
$ ln -s /usr/kde/3/bin/akpi akpi
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Now just reset KDE, and it should be running.
Hope this help.
RoguePacket |
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