Hi, > At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the > health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this > program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery > poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or looked at the memory location > where cmos is).
You may want to use lm_sensors for this purpose; some sensors are reporting battery voltage. See if the sensors of your motherboard are supported by lm_sensors and are doing this. > 3V is ok, <= 3V isn't. Usually CMOS batteries are CR2032 (LiMn 3V cells); they should last _many_ years (maybe 6 or 7 years) Bertrand
