[linux-laptop] system call to check battery energy?

[James Tappin]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:50:57 +0200
Karol Kozimor <sziwan at hell.org.pl> wrote:

KK> Thus wrote Vinod:
KK> > Would anyone know if i could make a simple system call
KK> > and find the battery energy remaining on my linux
KK> > laptop running redhat 9?
KK> 
KK> None such exists, and to my best knowledge, probably never will. What might
KK> one day exist is some standard library interface (libpower?) to handle both
KK> ACPI and APM, but I'm not aware of any currently available solutions.
KK> Best regards,

And hopefully PMU as well.

James

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