[Debian-eeepc-devel] where's the battery info??

[Veronica Brandt]

Thanks!  It is indeed in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0.  I'm using kernel 2.6.25.



On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> -=| Veronica Brandt, Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:45:43AM +0000 |=-
>> I'm trying to get adesklets working with openbox.  The acpi battery
>> monitor desklet looks for /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info which doesn't
>> exist on my machine.  Running acpi -b
>> No support for device type: battery
>
> $ acpi -b
>     Battery 0: Discharging, 88%, 04:48:13 remaining, design capacity
>     6580 mAh
>
> acpi v1.1-2
>
>> So where does the info live?  Gkrellm picks it up, but haven't
>> figured out how it does that.
>
> What you are looking for is probably in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/.
> I think the 2.6.26 kernel no longer provides the backwards-compatible
> interface in /proc
>
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