Intel OSPM Policy/GUI Testbed README
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This is a pre-alpha release of the policy and GUI for power management.
This proof-of-concept demonstrates the flow of information from the
kernel driver, through a policy daemon, to an example GUI app. The GUI
currently displays battery information, and of course could be extended
to expose more of the system's power-related functionality.

This release includes a GUI applet (ospm_gui), an interface library
(ospm_gui_lib), and the server daemon (ospmd).

Integration of this code into the acpid codebase will happen at a later
date.

Building
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1)  You must be using the ACPI driver release from Feb 7 2002 or later,
    due to /proc interface changes.
2)  Untar to a temporary directory.
3)  cd ospmd-<date>
4)  make (compilation of ospm_gui will fail if KDE and Qt libs are not
    installed.)
5)  From separate xterms, run ospmd/ospmd, and ospm_gui/ospm_gui.

