[ltp] New battery for IBM ThinkPad T23

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 24 May 2006 13:27:30 +0200


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:02:42 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I currently have about 2 hours and 30 minutes of battery time with the 
> battery that came with my used ThinkPad. I wonder whether I can get more 
> time by buying a new battery like the one offered here:

Just check /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info and
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state, especially design capacity and last full
capacity. Here you can see if your battery is still good or already
lost a larger part of its capacity.

Regards,
Tino