>Would anyone know if i could make a simple system call >and find the battery energy remaining? > >I am relatively new to linux, but i have uncovered >that apm and acpi are power management tools. trying >apm gives me the lifetime ,not in terms of energy say >in terms of mAh. acpi on the other hand does >seem(havent tried it yet) to give me values in terms >of energy. But i was wondering if there is a way i can >just do a system call and find the energy value than >having to configure acpi. Would appreciate any >pointers. Not that I'm aware of. But if you can't get what you want from ACPI, acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will want to know. Thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-laptop" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
