[ltp] Has my battery failed?

[Vivek]

On 28 Nov 2002, Pekka Pessi wrote:

[snip]
> 	Windows 2000 seems to have, err, a panel applet that shows
> 	miscalleneus information about the battery. The information
> 	includes nominal capacity, real capacity, cycle count,
> 	manufacturing date etc.
>
> 	Does anybody known if such a utility is available for Linux?

apt-cache search battery status | grep -vi ups:

acpid - Utilities for using ACPI
apmd - Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM)
battstat-applet - Battery status applet for GNOME
libapm-dev - Library for interacting with APM driver in kernel
libapm1 - Library for interacting with APM driver in kernel
procmeter - X based system status monitor, older version
wmacpi - An ACPI battery monitor for WindowMaker (alpha)
wmapm - An APM display program designed for WindowMaker
wmbattery - Display laptop battery info, dockable in WindowMaker
xapm - X program to monitor APM battery status
xbatt - Display battery status

wmbattery seems (from the brief apt-cache description) to
give the most info. procmeter and procmeter3 can be extended
with external programs iirc, and may have the relevant data
anyway.