Battery info on Toshiba Satellite 2515CDS?

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Battery info on Toshiba Satellite 2515CDS?
started by: teitoku

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Posted by teitoku on Aug. 07 2006,12:51

I have zero experience with linux on laptops, or anything with a battery.   How do I set this up?   How can I get it into torsmo?  That'd be damn cool.  Into the tray of JWM would be even cooler.

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Posted by jls legalize on Aug. 08 2006,08:44

wmacpi_1.99r7.dsl or wmapm.tar.gz from mydsl button - wm apps


legalize cannabis, etc.
jls

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Posted by hs7sv on Aug. 08 2006,10:00

< This thread > may be helpful.  

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Posted by teitoku on Aug. 09 2006,03:29

Eh.....50/50 on the helpful/frustrating scale.   I replied to your script in that topic though, could you possibly help me out with it there?

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Posted by odradek on Aug. 13 2006,19:10

This may or may not help, but note that the torsmo default configuration, and also hs7sv's perl script, are looking for battery info in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0

Try this:

ls /proc/acpi/battery

and see what the subdirectory called.  If your laptop is like mine, the battery may be called "BAT1", and the .torsmorc and/or perl script need to be modified so they look in the right place.

In my case the fix for .torsmorc is to replace ${battery} with ${battery 1}

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Posted by teitoku on Aug. 14 2006,05:06

Awesome, that's exactly what mine needed too.  Thanks.

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