Need a command/program to find out laptop battery level
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Need a command/program to find out laptop battery level
I'm running slack 10.2 with 2.4 kernel and the icewm windows manager and I'm trying to find a command or program so I can see (or preferably monitor) my battery life.
Slackware comes with Gkrellm which has a battery monitor as well as monitors a lot of other things (which you can turn off if you don't want to see them)
Which 2.4 kernel? Bare.i? Or bareacpi.i?
You need acpi enabled to get battery info.
Either install bareacpi (You can use 'pkgtool' as root to do this, just choose 'Install Scripts to run again'), or recompile your kernel with ACPI functions included.
Some laptops (such as mine) use APM rather than ACPI. If that's the case, you'll load the apm module and then type "apm" at the command line to check your battery status.
Which 2.4 kernel? Bare.i? Or bareacpi.i?
You need acpi enabled to get battery info.
Either install bareacpi (You can use 'pkgtool' as root to do this, just choose 'Install Scripts to run again'), or recompile your kernel with ACPI functions included.
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