Battery monitor
Forum: Laptops
Topic: Battery monitor
started by: filthyskillet
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 10 2005,06:17
I thought I saw a battery monitor in earlier release .Is there still one ?
Compaq armada 1750 PII 128 mb ram hdinstall release 1.0rc1
Thanks in advance!
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 10 2005,08:59
I found http://docapps.org< http://wmpower.sourceforge.net/ > this one looks good.
Posted by Max on Mar. 10 2005,13:19
I believe ACPI support was taken out of the kernel around release 0.9 (probably to save some space), but I have not gotten anyone to ever confirm this. All I know is that the docapp battery monitor program quit working about then and have never worked since.
Posted by caulktel on Mar. 10 2005,16:20
You might want to apt-get wmapm, it is the only thing that will work on my laptop. Hitachi 4140X, Pentium 133MHz 96 meg ram running DSL 1.0rc.
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 10 2005,17:55
| Quote (caulktel @ Mar. 10 2005,11:20) |
| You might want to apt-get wmapm, it is the only thing that will work on my laptop. Hitachi 4140X, Pentium 133MHz 96 meg ram running DSL 1.0rc. |
Thanks I will try "apt-get wmapm" and post the results.
I did try wmbattery from Synaptic but no luck with my setup.
Posted by caulktel on Mar. 10 2005,21:11
Actually, the correct syntax would be, "apt-get install wmapm". Then select the run command from the main menu and type "wmapm" plus enter, it should show up in the slit now.
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 10 2005,22:19
Thanks but I think I screwed the pooch when I atempted debian distro and gcc .But on the plus side I found that double clicking on the dock partition drive that is mounted will open midnight commander!
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 10 2005,22:23
Damn Small Linux is like playing playstation2 , you just keep finding shortcuts.
Posted by geodescent on Mar. 13 2005,20:43
No APM support in kernel. So apt-getting the wmapm and then executing it doesn't work.P.S. I discovered this because when I reboot right after trying to execute wmapm, I notice a little message once x quits that reads "No APM support in kernel."
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 13 2005,20:57
Thanks geodescent .That explaines all the kernel error messages.
Posted by caulktel on Mar. 14 2005,00:46
Works for me.
Posted by cQjQc on Mar. 16 2005,20:03
install a version before 0.9 I have 0.7.1 installedfrom desktop menu ckick on apps/tools/enable apt
then after thats done click on run programe from desktop menu type in (apt-get install wmapm) then run program from menu again type (wmapm) That should do it, you should see it .
Posted by filthyskillet on Mar. 17 2005,19:06
I think I found the problem , there is a function key and an F8 key with the picture of a battery on it.Ohwhatanassiam!
Posted by geodescent on Mar. 18 2005,01:37
Are you saying a battery monitor exists in the latest release? Or only the older ones as previously mentioned?
Posted by adssse on May 27 2005,14:03
I have also had trouble trying to get a battery monitor to work. I am interested to find out what the best solution is.
Posted by adraker on May 27 2005,22:50
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.
Posted by cbagger01 on May 28 2005,04:39
With few deps, you should be able to reboot via livecd and use deb2dsl to make a *.dsl extension without too much trouble.
Posted by adssse on May 28 2005,04:44
It looks like alot of people are interested in this topic. It would be great to have a .dsl extension of this.
Posted by adssse on May 29 2005,01:42
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.
Posted by adraker on May 29 2005,05:42
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**
