After installing Guadalinex (a localised Debian for education and desktop users put out by the Andalusian Government in Spain) on this laptop the ony hitch is that there is no battery gauge, and the computer uses it until fully discharged without any warning.
The computer is a Gericom Patriot mobile AMD Athlon XP 1500+ I have not been able to find the rest of the specs for it in Google, maybe someone with a better German will be able to help out (Gericom is an Austrian brand). The battery works fine in windows, so we have ruled out a hardware problem. Looking in /proc/acpi, there is no file or directory called 'battery'. When giving instructions or asking for more info, be both very precise and verbose, we are quite new at this linux+hardware game. Thank you, --javier candeira
