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otake-tux
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 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:55 am Post subject: battery monitor (amd64) |
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Hello. I just finished installing gentoo on my laptop 6 hours ago. I have an Acer 5004wlmi turion laptop running kernel 2.6.15.
I read that the best 64 bit linux distribution was gentoo so here I am. Now since this is a laptop I'm running I need to know how much battery life I have left at any given time. I would like to know how to get gnome to display my battery. I right click on the panel and can find no application that does this. I searched portage and I found wmbattery which does not do anything when I plug or unplug the ac adapter.
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and battstat is a masked package.... |
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there are lot of battery monitors in portage, you need to look something for you. on my amd64 I used battery monitor from kde, gkrellm2 and from conky (which using acpi command to display information)
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That's also a masked package. Don't you mean acpid? under acpi it says:
| Code: | Attempts to replicate the functionality of the 'old' apm command on ACPI systems, including battery and thermal information.
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| joker wrote: |
there are lot of battery monitors in portage, you need to look something for you. on my amd64 I used battery monitor from kde, gkrellm2 and from conky (which using acpi command to display information) |
What is the name of the KDE one? That is, how do you launch it from the command line?
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What is the name of the KDE one? That is, how do you launch it from the command line?
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The one I use is called KThinkBat (ebuild on bugs.gentoo.org), but I don't think that it can be launched from command line. Instead you may try to cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT*/state
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