README for libacpi - a general purpose ACPI library =================================================== Introduction: ============= libacpi is a general purpose shared library for programs gathering ACPI data like battery status, thermal zones, fans and ac status. Downloading: ============ You can download the latest version of libacpi from the following website: http://www.ngolde.de/libacpi.html Alternatively you can check out the latest version from the libacpi mercurial repository using: hg clone http://hg.modprobe.de/libacpi/ Dependencies: ============= None apart from libc development files and a C compiler. Installation: ============= Compiling and installing libacpi is as simple as: $ make As root: $ make install You may want to modify config.mk After installing, link your source files with -lacpi Documentation: ============== See http://www.ngolde.de/libacpi.html, doc/, man 3 libacpi and test-libacpi.c Programs using libacpi: ======================= xbattbar-acpi (>=0.3): http://www.senzanome.org/xbattbar-acpi/ acpitail: http://www.vanheusden.com/acpitail/ If you want to see your program listed here please see "Contact" and write me a mail. Contact: ======== Nico Golde <nico@ngolde.de> Donations are always welcome since I can't test every feature with my notebook (Asus m6800nb). License: ======== libacpi is licensed under the terms of the MIT/X Consortium license, see LICENSE for further details