Fabio Comolli writes: > 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: > ---------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. >
I see the same problem with battstat applet on a Dell Inspiron 600m running snv_35. I've been using batstat from frkit for awhile to watch may battery level, but I didn't know about the -x option until today. > > Casper > > > > Regards, > Fabio > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
