Re: Sony Vaio battery indicator

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Loz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Sony Vaio FX-103 running Agnula DeMudi (which I am reliably
> informed is a snapshot of Sarge) and I'd like to be able to monitor
> the battery level of both the batteries in the laptop.
>
> On XP (yes, I have it dual booting, because I cannot tear myself away
> from windows just yet) Sony provide a couple of programs to read the
> battery levels, because windows cannot do it natively. I am assuming
> that the Vaio's read battery levels in a different way to other
> laptops because of this.
>
> However, does anyone know if such a program exists in linux so I can
> monitor this?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Loz

Have you tried acpid? Once you install this, in Gnome you can add a 
small applet (from Utilities I believe) which will show you the battery 
state and charge level. I installed it in Dell Inspiron 5160 recently 
for somebody and it works nicely .... except that it does not detect the 
status of 'connected to batter/AC power' on the fly. The battery charge 
indicator works properly,but if you plug in or plug out the AC cable, 
the source indicator does not change and just remains where it was when 
you logged in.

->HS