Re: CMOS battery
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Bertrand wrote:
> 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.
Never did manage to get lm_sensors to work - this is an old crappy K6-II
machine.
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