I used to use apmd, it worked pretty well, I used to cut the power
left %
out and use it in my prompt.
hub:~# apt-cache show apmd
Package: apmd
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 220
Maintainer: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.0.2-1.19
Depends: libapm1 (>= 3.0.2-1.11), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), debconf,
powermgmt-base
Suggests: xapm
Filename: pool/main/a/apmd/apmd_3.0.2-1.19_i386.deb
Size: 44632
MD5sum: b274295bddfbb119231700c05a2ee7ca
Description: Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM)
On laptop computers, the Advanced Power Management (APM) support
provides access to battery status information and may help you to
conserve battery power, depending on your laptop and the APM
implementation. The apmd program also lets you run arbitrary programs
when APM events happen (for example, you can eject PCMCIA devices when
you suspend, or change hard drive timeouts when you connect the
battery).
.
This package contains apmd(8), a daemon for logging and acting on APM
events; and apm(1), a client that prints the information in /proc/apm
in a readable format.
.
apmd is notified of APM events by the APM driver in the kernel.
.
Recent Debian kernels are built with APM support but it is disabled
by default. You need to boot the kernel with the "apm=on" option if
you want to enable the driver. (You may need to add this option to
your lilo command line.)
Task: laptop
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Schlansker [mailto:steven@fgsoft.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 11:17 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Laptop battery
I have an ancient NEC Versa 4080H laptop, and I wiped Windows
off of it
to install Debian. I'd like to be able to check the power
left in the
battery. How would I do that? (Note that there's no X windows
installed, so command line only please)
Is there a /proc entry? I couldn't find one. Thanks for any help.
Also please CC any replies to me, as I don't want to deal with the
massive amounts of mail going through this server. Thanks.
------------------
Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was correct.
Steven Schlansker
Tech Support & Programming
Flamin' Ghost Software
http://www.fgsoft.net/
steven@fgsoft.net
techsupport@fgsoft.net
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