Re: pmu_battery in sid

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

Hi all,

I don't know exactly what I did to make this change but I got the 
battery meter now. All I did was installing powerprefs (an old GUI to 
handle pbbuttonsd). I don't know whether that has anything to do with 
that but ok...


On 07/27/2011 09:28 PM, Risto Suominen wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
>
> I have never seen a battery meter in LXDE panel, but  assume that you
> have since you are asking. Where is it located?
>
> I'm using Debian 6.0.1 (Squeeze) on a PowerBook G3 Lombard. Right now
> my problem is that the computer does not know it has a battery and
> does not charge it. Maybe I have to reset the PMU (how?) or replace
> the PRAM battery (is there any?) or...
>
> However, there are two identical files, battery_0 and battery_1, even
> without loading the module pmu_battery:
>
> risto@lombard:~$ cat /proc/pmu/battery_0
>
> flags      : 00000010
> charge     : 0
> max_charge : 0
> current    : 0
> voltage    : 0
> time rem.  : 0
> risto@lombard:~$
>
> Risto