Re: [gNewSense-users] Checking YeeLoong battery status

[Cato Auestad]

Thanks, guys. I haven't got a chance to check Delyan's answer, but the
apm one worked perfectly for me. Problably won't be a problem
integrating it into dwm's menubar.

On 5/13/10, Delyan Raychev <address@hidden> wrote:
> Allow me to add here that with kernel 2.6.33.2-libre-lemote  /proc/apm
> is no longer available
>
> The following command would show the battery status:
>
> #cat /sys/class/power_supply/yeeloong-bat/status
>
> Del
>
>
> On 5/13/2010 2:21 PM, Delyan Raychev wrote:
>> Cato,
>>
>> With 2.6.32 kernel on YeeLoong this should show you battery power
>> remaining:
>>
>> #cat /proc/apm
>>
>>
>> On 5/13/2010 1:01 PM, Cato Auestad wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to check the battery status of the YeeLoong in
>>> gNewSense with Terminal? As far as I can see, acpi is not installed
>>> but GNOME can still find out the battery status.
>>>
>>> I am wondering because i run dwm and currently have no way (that I am
>>> aware of) to check how much battery I have left :(
>>>
>>
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