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authorSteve Zesch <[email protected]>2012-04-24 15:28:36 -0400
committerSteve Zesch <[email protected]>2012-04-24 15:28:36 -0400
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upower support added to battstat. Preparing for 1.2.2 release.mate-applets-1.2.2
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@@ -226,11 +226,14 @@
<title>Power Management Backends</title>
<para>
- The battery monitor supports a number of power management backends. If it
- is available, the monitor will attempt to use the freedesktop.org
- <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal">HAL (Hardware Abstraction
- Layer)</ulink>. If it is unavailable or unsupported on your platform, the
- battery monitor will attempt direct access to the power management system.
+ The battery monitor supports a number of power management backends.
+ If it is available, the monitor will attempt to use the freedesktop.org
+ <ulink url="http://upower.freedesktop.org/">upower</ulink> interface.
+ If it is unavailable or unsupported on your platform, it will fall back
+ to the freedesktop.org
+ <ulink url="http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal">HAL (Hardware
+ Abstraction Layer)</ulink>. If that is also not availble, the
+ battery monitor will attempt direct access to the power management system
</para>
<para>
Not all power management backends are available from all vendors, and some
@@ -410,10 +413,10 @@
<sect2 id="battstat-troubleshooting-backends">
<title>Determining the backend</title>
<para>
- If you are using the Hardware Abstraction Layer
- (see <xref linkend="battstat-power-backends"/>) then that will be
- indicated in the about dialog by placing a star next to the author of the
- HAL backend.
+ If you are using the upower interface, or the the Hardware
+ Abstraction Layer (see <xref linkend="battstat-power-backends"/>) then
+ that will be indicated in the about dialog by placing a star next to the
+ author of the HAL backend.
<figure id="battstat-credits-hal">
<title>Check you're using the HAL backend</title>
<screenshot>