Laptop Battery Meter

[Gfei]

Hey all,

I'm new to Linux and just installed Debian on my Alienware Sentia. Thanks to a few forum searches I finally got out of 800x600 resolution, but I still have a couple of issues remaining.

One issue is the battery meter, it doesn't work. Seems so simple, but I can be a little slow.

Anyway I would appreciate a some advice on how to get this working.

Gfei

[spencerf]

are you using acpi?

one way to tell would be if you have an acpi director in /proc

so

cd /proc
ls
[is acpi there]


if it is you can manually check batter status with:

cat /proc/acpi/batter/BAT0/state (that's a zero not a capital O)

if this works you might need to configure whatever battery status icon thingy (i know realy technical huh...) to look for status at this location.

[Gfei]

No, acpi is not there. Frankly I don't know much as far as what is really on this thing. I'm at a "works" or "doesn't work" level at the moment.

Thanks for the reply.