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06-30-2004, 04:27 PM
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Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Aachen
Distribution: Opensuse 11.2 (nice and steady)
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check laptop's battery
Hi i want to check the overall status of a battery... Do u know some shell commands for doing it?
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06-30-2004, 07:03 PM
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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Brisvegas, Antipodes
Distribution: Slackware
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Provided you have acpi working correctly "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state"
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07-01-2004, 01:01 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: NJ, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian
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The command:
APM
Will show you the current battery status (assuming you use APM, of course).
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07-01-2004, 01:34 AM
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Thx for your replies... Do u know what the knoppix 3.3 supports?
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