need help regarding battery status

asifbasha · 08-21-2009, 12:24 AM

hai to all

i am using toshiba l305 laptop ,and i have installed fedora 11 with gnome desktop , i can able to see battery remaining status in gnome-power-manager .but my question is that i want to check my battery status by command in the terminal,
any ideas will help me

thanks in advance

kbp · 08-21-2009, 12:42 AM

Hey asifbasha,

Try 'yum install acpitool' then 'acpitool'

cheers,

kbp

repo · 08-21-2009, 12:46 AM

take a look in
/proc/acpi/*

You can use cat to see the info

jayeola · 08-22-2009, 05:42 AM

yum install acpitool

an example:-

[jayeola@acid ~]$ acpitool --battery
Battery #1 : present
Remaining capacity : 47520 mWh, 92.40%, 00:34:07
Design capacity : 56160 mWh
Last full capacity : 51430 mWh, 91.58% of design capacity
Capacity loss : 8.422%
Present rate : 6876 mW
Charging state : charging
Battery type : rechargeable, LION
Model number : 92P1139
Serial number : 3522