Hi Casper.
On 3/15/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
> >I tried the gnome battstat applet from the laptop community.
> >The problem I have is that after about one minute the system becomes
> >unresponsive, load average jumps above three and prstat shows that the
> >applet gets about 50% of my CPU.
> >Removing the applet brings system to normal load.
> >Does anyone experience something like this?
>
> This is possibly an issue specific to your laptop.
>
> I'm not sure if the GNOME applet is compatible which whatever GNOME
> they use in Nexenta; does the "batstat" application work?
>
Gnome is 2.12.1
> E.g., running "batstat -x" in an xterm window?
>
Yup:
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fcomolli at kepler:~$ batstat
System temperature = 51.0C
Battery 0 status:
Percentage remaining: 28.8%
Battery is currently discharging
Time remaining 0:38
Battery 1 not present
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batstat -x sets the title of the running xterm to the current capacity.
FYI, the laptop is an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi, with DSDT overridden
(I had to do exactly the same in Linux to have the battery recognised.
> Casper
>
Regards,
Fabio
