[ltp] Power drain.

Andreas D. Landmark linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:40:57 +0200


On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 12:12:00PM -0400, Jordi G. March wrote:
> 
>    Hi,
>    if you use ACPI, you can check how many miliWatts/hour remain at:
>    /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
>    As an example, I've got right now (batt. fully charged) 35070mWh.
>    Maybe that way you can check more properly which source is draining
>    most.
>    Regards,
>    Jordi
>    El lun, 12-04-2004 a las 05:53, Martin Man escribió:
> 

Or if you use APM

cyb97@lillevappen:~$ apt-cache show battery-stats
Package: battery-stats
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 168
Maintainer: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.3.3-1
Depends: gnuplot (>= 3.7.2), gzip (>= 1.3.2), libapm1 (>= 3.0.2-1.11), libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Recommends: logrotate
Filename: pool/main/b/battery-stats/battery-stats_0.3.3-1_i386.deb
Size: 21728
MD5sum: 65380ae6134c30605e7164b3eb067b76
Description: Collects statistics about charge of laptop batteries
 This package will periodically collect statistics about the charge of the
 batteries present.
 .
 It also contains a simple graph utility to show the battery charge/discharge
 patterns over time.
 .
 Note: This requires APM to be enabled and working in your kernel.



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