another two batteries point

Arjan van de Ven arjan at linux.intel.com
Mon May 28 13:28:46 PDT 2007


Martin Kortmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My notebook (Fujitsu/Siemens Celsius H230) has two Batteries.
> The internal Batterie has 14.4V, 4.8 Ah. The secondary Batterie
> (in the CD-Bay) has 10.8V and 3.8 Ah. This seems to be handled
> OK, since your software only gets the "watts".
> 
> But: Where do you get the value of "watts_left"? The ACPI
> batterie-info file doesnt show a remaining capacity in mW,
> only present rate (in mA), remaining capacity (in mAh) and
> present voltage (in mV).


YOUR laptop does.. other laptops reports mW instead ;)



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