On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Bertrand wrote: > 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.
Never did manage to get lm_sensors to work - this is an old crappy K6-II machine. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ I've told them and told them: Temporal anomalies are different from spatial anomalies. But the kittens know better. They laugh at my feeble attempts to fool them. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
