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List:       linux-thinkpad
Subject:    Re: [ltp] R50p Battery Time in gkrellm2
From:       Michael Gaber <Michael.Gaber () gmx ! net>
Date:       2005-06-29 16:59:52
Message-ID: 42C2D388.5090203 () gmx ! net
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Jan Girlich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Michael Gaber schrieb:
> 
>> i own a R50p 1832-22G. on my friends R40 i saw that gkrellm 2.2.5 shows
>> him the time his laptop will stay up and runnig, while on battery. this
>> seems to come directly from the bios. can some1 tell me why it isn't so
>> on my much newer TP with the newest EC and BIOS?
> 
> 
> The way I understood this battery-thing in gkrellm2 it's nothing about
> BIOS or EC. The time is just computed by some parameters you give him
> like the time your battery needs to reload and how long it can power
> your laptop.

nope
the info-part of the battery plugin says these times are only used to
override no-data/wrong-data from the bios.

> 
> BTW: I can't get it showing the time left, too. :|

looks like we should either bug ibm/lenovo or the gkrellm-coders

> 
> Bye
> Jan

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