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Re: AC adapter state



On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:40:19PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Hello to all!
> 
> I have a DELL laptop running debian squeeze where I cannot find whether
> it is connected on AC power or not. On an EEE laptop, I can check that
> using the info in the file /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state, but such
> file does not exist on the DELL laptop. But KDE shows me correctly the
> relevant info on the battery state icon. Where does it take its info from?

Hi. If you have powermgmt-base installed (and you probably have because
pm-utils needs it), you can use on_ac_power script. 
it's written in shell so you can look at it to see how the ac state is
determined if you are interested.

mk


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