On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:57:01AM -0500, lusec001@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I am currently developing a project which tries to minimize the > > consumption of battery in laptops avoiding as much as possible the use of > > the hard drive. To evaluate if our implementation is doing well, we need > > to know how is the consumption of energy in the laptop or even better how > > much power consumes the hard drive in a period of time. > > Thank you all guys for the quick response, all responses seems useful. My > next question in the topic is: is there an easy way to find the battery > information (remaining energy, consumption each hour) through a module? No, and you really don't want that because it is non-standard and rather complicated. Provide the mechanisms in the kernel and have a userspace program make decisions. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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