Re: CMOS battery

[Bertrand <debian@cykian.net>]

Hi,

> At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the
> health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this
> program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery
> poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or looked at the memory location
> where cmos is).

You may want to use lm_sensors for this purpose; some sensors are reporting 
battery voltage. See if the sensors of your motherboard are supported by 
lm_sensors and are doing this.

> 3V is ok, <= 3V isn't.

Usually CMOS batteries are CR2032 (LiMn 3V cells); they should last _many_ 
years (maybe 6 or 7 years)

Bertrand