Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:06:08 + Joe wrote: > There are systems which will automatically recognise baud rate by > assuming the shortest mark or space represents the rate, but this > needs fairly good signal strength and reasonable jitter to work. It > generally can't be done well through the UA

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yep, after thinking a bit and poking the interwebs for good measure, I'm > convinced now that you are right. Miscreant! Stefan

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 04:28:14PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] > > The CH340 is a real USB<->serial converter, so somewhere inside the > > device is a real serial connection which speaks at a specific speed and > > the CH3

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:13:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with > >> something like cp210x should deal with multiple devices, assigning them > >> ttyUSBx device numbers. > [...] > > I doubt all that baud rate, stop bits and

Re: battery tester

2024-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with >> something like cp210x should deal with multiple devices, assigning them >> ttyUSBx device numbers. [...] > I doubt all that baud rate, stop bits and parity dance we know and love > from the RS232s of yore are necessary with

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 09:44:55PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:10:53 -0400 > "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > The CH340 is a well-known device, and the usbserial module along with > something like cp210x sh

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen.

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/10/2024 03:07, Dan Ritter wrote: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 kernel: [1915052.251232] usb 7-1.4.4: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 mtp-probe: checking bus 7, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.7/usb7/7-1/7

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 24 October 2024 03:26:06 pm to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 03:21:24PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > > Connecting the device with a USB cab

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 3:20 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen. > > >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:21:24 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at > > > which point there's a menu on its screen.

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Joe
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:10:53 -0400 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug > > wrote: > > > > > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I > > > can tell, the company

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > > there's a menu on its screen. > > > > Start "journalctl -f" as root b

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 09:38:04 pm Max Nikulin wrote: > On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point > > there's a menu on its screen. > > Start "journalctl -f" as root before connecting the device. Logs may >

Re: battery tester

2024-10-24 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 11:14:52 am Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, > > the company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > > > A friend of mine managed to a

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/10/2024 22:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: 1) download the applications from ANCEL website. www.anceltech.com [...] Installing software from a Chinese vendor does not give me a warm and fuzzy feeling. The question is whether there is an a

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 23/10/2024 21:25, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Connecting the device with a USB cable I see it wake up, at which point there's a menu on its screen. Start "journalctl -f" as root before connecting the device. Logs may contain some hints how to communicate with it. Perhaps "udevadm monitor"

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:14:52AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] > Installing software from a Chinese vendor does not give me a warm and > fuzzy feeling. Yes, like - Cisco - Solarwinds - Microsoft - Crowdstrike oh, wait... Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 6:38 AM George at Clug wrote: > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the > company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS > emulation and the original DOS s

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:39:36 am George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the > company does not provide Linux drivers or software. > > A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS > emulation and the

Re: battery tester

2024-10-23 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 21 October 2024 07:47:39 am Darac Marjal wrote: > > On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT > > video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" > > for this device (available

Re: battery tester

2024-10-21 Thread George at Clug
Hi, I have been following the comments on this topic. From what I can tell, the company does not provide Linux drivers or software. A friend of mine managed to access a heart rate monitor by using DOS emulation and the original DOS software. Maybe you could use Wine to run the Windows "Print

Re: battery tester

2024-10-21 Thread Darac Marjal
On 20/10/2024 18:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which requires yo

Re: battery tester

2024-10-20 Thread David Christensen
On 10/20/24 10:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: I have here an Ancel BA101 battery tester, discovered by way of a YT video, and it's proved to be a handy gadget to have. In the "user manual" for this device (available online) it talks about the ability to print the data. Which requires you t

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-19 Thread songbird
William Torrez Corea wrote: > What happened with my CMOS battery? > > I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the > date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine. > > Start the operating system, the system loads but then restart and the > date/h

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-18 Thread David Christensen
On 10/16/24 21:59, William Torrez Corea wrote: What happened with my CMOS battery? I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine. Start the operating system, the system loads but then restart and th

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-17 Thread William Torrez Corea
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:59:47 -0600 > William Torrez Corea wrote: > > > What happened with my CMOS battery? > > I conjecture that this is not a recent computer. Perhaps the computer > is failing? > > I take

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:59:47 -0600 William Torrez Corea wrote: > What happened with my CMOS battery? I conjecture that this is not a recent computer. Perhaps the computer is failing? I take it that the computer has worked correctly (at least in this regard) until now. What, if anything, are yo

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Oct 2024 at 22:59:47 (-0600), William Torrez Corea wrote: > What happened with my CMOS battery? > > I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the > date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine. > > Start the operating system, the syste

Re: Battery CMOS

2024-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
William Torrez Corea composed on 2024-10-16 22:59 (UTC-0600): > What happened with my CMOS battery? > I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the > date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine. > Start the operating system, the system loads b

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Nicolas George
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > I think fastest and easiest way is to swap current disk with another (if it > is available of course) and install Evaluation version of Windows 10 > Enterprise. [1] Unfortunately, switching the disk is not an option. Booting from a SD card could work, but I

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 18:04, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the backup image I made. There is a program named

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 17:26, Nicolas George wrote: Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your laptop using SNID code.

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the > backup image I made. There is a program named 'flashrom' in Debian, but I don't know how

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Nicolas George
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. > Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. > I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your > laptop using SNID code. > > [1] https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 15:01, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. On my new Acer TravelMate Spin B3, running recent Bullseye, I have noticed a strange battery drain when the computer is powered off: it loses about 1% of the total battery charge every hour, which makes a quarter of the battery in a day. The drain

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> "Darac" == Darac Marjal writes: > There's a great utility called "ibam" which pays attention to > the historical performance of your battery. The main benefit is if your > "The" == The Wanderer writes: > Try ibam, and (if you use gkrellm) gkrellm-ibam. I've been using them on > my lapt

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:55:06AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a good utility out there to predict the remaining > running/charging time of my battery? > > For the "remaining runtime" most of the utilities out there seem to just > divide the remaining capacity by the current power usag

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 03/16/2015 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Is there a good utility out there to predict the remaining > running/charging time of my battery? > > For the "remaining runtime" most of the utilities out there seem to > just divide the remaining capacity by the current power usage, which > do

Re: Battery level in Testing

2013-10-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/10/2013 18:02, Erwan David a écrit : > Le 26/10/2013 12:02, Erwan David a écrit : >> Hello all >> >> Since yesterday my KDE from testing does not detect the battery level >> and acts as though it is zero (lenovo T530, it worked before). >> Windowd on the same laptop show 99%, thus the battery

Re: Battery level in Testing

2013-10-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/10/2013 12:02, Erwan David a écrit : > Hello all > > Since yesterday my KDE from testing does not detect the battery level > and acts as though it is zero (lenovo T530, it worked before). > Windowd on the same laptop show 99%, thus the battery is not empty. What > can I do to detect where the

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: > Perhaps so, but if the charge isn't increasing, then that's basically > "full". Probably so. > Batteries usually note three main values in their "fuel gagues" (a small > chip in the battery): current charge, current maximum charge and > designed maximum charge. The "designed

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:15:03AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: snip... > > The cycle only does damage when the battery is discharged beyond 50-60%, > which a li-on battery should not allow. Laptop batteries can and sometimes do go to total discharge if left on battery po

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread David Guntner
cletusjenkins grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung > has just recently discovered the amazing feature of not over-charging > batteries. Funny... my laptop is a Samsung that I've had for a few years now, and it has a feature under ba

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread cletusjenkins
> > http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-extending-notebook-battery-life > > > it's called "Smart charging", so I guess it should have a config option > somewhere. > > Philip Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just recently disco

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread cletusjenkins
>> >It's a feature of modern laptops. > >The idea is that the battery lasts longer if you avoid full >charge/discharge cycles. > >Mine is on 80% too - it's normal. > >As for how you tell it to charge to 100% because you're planning a bus >trip - anyone out there, please let me know. >

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/08/13 12:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: >>> I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its >>> charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system >>> back up and connect t

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incor

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:29:49AM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: > > I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger > > and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and > > connect the charger the battery c

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: > I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger > and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect > the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incorrect info. > > I plug in the charge

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: > > I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it > > still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the > > graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. > > Hi and thanks f

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:59AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: > > Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In > > particular, compare the values of "design capa

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:17:21 + Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: > >Hello everyone! > >I'm experiencing a wierd battery problem and I'd like to know if anyone > >have seen the same. > > > >When I turn on Debian the battery is

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Neroni
> I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it > still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the > graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. Hi and thanks for replying. Top seems clean, processes are normal. I was also thi

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Neroni
>> Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In >> particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full >> capacity". If "last full capacity" is significantly lower than "design >> capacity", then the battery is dying. The jump you're seeing is due to >> the ch

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:24 -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: > >> Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In > >> particular, compare the values of "design capacity

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread mark
> On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: >> Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In >> particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full >> capacity". If "last full capacity" is significan

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: > Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In > particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full > capacity". If "last full capacity" is significantly lo

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: >Hello everyone! >I'm experiencing a wierd battery problem and I'd like to know if anyone >have seen the same. > >When I turn on Debian the battery is charged. acpi tells me there are >still 3 hours >of charge a

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > ¹ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel > I try it! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You find out who yo

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:54:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? > Sure! Ouch! O:-) How about trying with "debian-eeepc-devel¹" list? Maybe they provide more information about this as they develop the tools for these specific net

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (B

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:46:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> *** >> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement >> >> Power management >> >> On some models, the battery info is not very precise (jumps from 10% to >> 100%, no rate information, etc.). Appare

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > It looks not so normal to me. > I am reassured. > But looking at Debian wiki for EEE systems it seems to be a known issue > with power management: > > *** > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement > > Power management > > On some models, the battery

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE > 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have > unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 > hours, and say nothing.

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > > >>> Maybe this is something worth to report it. >>> >>> >> And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly >> the same remaining time? >> > > Yes

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Maybe this is something worth to report it. >> > And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly > the same remaining time? Yes :-) If you carefully look the picture I sent, you will see the

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: > > >> That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, >> and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). >> >> The output of your command is the same as the info box you

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: > That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, > and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). > > The output of your command is the same as the info box you can see on my > screenshot

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > (...) > > >> You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. >> are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the >> green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) > You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. > are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the > green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a difference on > both indicator

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 17:01:06 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > On 7/13/06, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >Can any of you tell me how can I enable AC Adaptor and Control Method > >> Battery please? > > > >As far as I remember, the ACPI stuff is compiled as modules in the stock > >Debian kernels. (I have bee

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-15 Thread Rocky Ou
On 7/13/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  > Can any of you tell me how can I enable AC Adaptor and Control Method> Battery please?As far as I remember, the ACPI stuff is compiled as modules in the stockDebian kernels. (I have been using self-compiled kernels for a long time, therefore

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 22:10:45 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey List, > > I'm using Debian Sid on my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. I want to enable the > power monitor function for my computer. But when I go to Control > Center-->Power Control -->Laptop Battery of KDE I got the following message. > >

Re: battery power applet nowhere to be found

2004-08-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brian Samek: > On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:34 am, Brian Samek wrote: > > I installed sarge and apt-getted kde and acpid. Where's the > > battery power applet? The control panel has "show battery > > monitor" checked. And I can't add it by right-clicking the > > Never mind. It

Re: battery power applet nowhere to be found

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Samek
Never mind. It appears after reboot. I thought this was linux! Why do I have to reboot? :-) On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:34 am, Brian Samek wrote: > I installed sarge and apt-getted kde and acpid. Where's the > battery power applet? The control panel has "show battery > monitor" checked. A

RE: Battery level monitor for Linux and X11?

1997-02-21 Thread Paul Rightley
'xapm' works just as well as the utility provided with W95 on my Thinkpad 365XD. Paul On 21-Feb-97 Robert Nicholson wrote: >>dmesg reports the correct information from the BIOS so that APM stuff is >working fine. So does anybody know of a good notebook battery level >monitor? > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIB