Laptops :: Battery monitor



I just got a Thinkpad 380XD, and I downloaded the
Debian stable package of wmbattery.With dpkg.dsl installed,
it slides right in there, no deps.
Its supposed to show time remaining, but I don't think this
bios can handle that.
The crescent style "fuel gauge" works allright, in this laptop
indicating 0%, 10%, 80% and 100%.
Which is all you get with IBM's original indicator under windows.
Thats o.k. by me, so I might package it when I get time.
So theres something for Thinkpad 380s I guess.
With few deps, you should be able to reboot via livecd and use deb2dsl to make a *.dsl extension without too much trouble.
It looks like alot of people are interested in this topic. It would be great to have a .dsl extension of this.
adraker, I used synaptic to download wmbattery but I am having troulbe getting it to work. Synaptic shows that it is installed but I dont know how to make it appear in the slit. I also downloaded wmapm but haven't been able to get that to work either. Help on either one would be appreciated.
adsee-
I'm not too clued up on this apm/acpi/bios stuff,
never having had a laptop before, I never had to deal with it.
I think the results of wmbattery may be largely down to
your given bios.All I can say is what I did on a 380XD Thinkpad,
with DSL 1.1.0 (Frugal, syslinux), and dpkg -i wmbattery_1.21_i386.deb.
The binary should be in /usr/bin/wmbattery, so open a terminal
and enter that, and see what the system tells you.
I'm in the throws of spitting out a .dsl for it, it's not going to work
for everyone, and if it does, it may only do so in varying degrees.
Maybe some other knowledgeable persons out there can set me
straight on this, or if the idea is futile, or what.
So see if the .deb package works for you, and meanwhile, I'll try to
finish off the .dsl package and send it to ke4nt1.....

*edit- which I've now hastily done.*

**double edit-ke4nt1 has very kindly corrected the package-
much appreciated.
I would like to know if it works for any other machines
as I've only one laptop at my disposal**

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