Re: [Hampshire] Linux battery level applets

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:32:00 +0100 (BST)
"Vic" <lug@???> wrote:

> > I have an old Compaq Evo N160 laptop.
>
> Aha. I've got one of those too.

Me too :)

> > When I installed Ubuntu with Gnome
> > I found that the battery applet failed to provide a figure for the
> > battery charge and only ever shows 0%.

I'm using wmbattery (a windowmaker dockable applet) and that doesn't
work as well as it did on a thinkpad, but does give me a numerical
figure which seems to be time left. The battery in my N160seems to
have a 3 hour life which is an enormous improvement over the 2
minutes or so of the thinkpad batteries I have.

I personally don't think it worth patching the kernel to get this
working properly as kernels in sid don't last long.

--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package