I may be a light debian user. 'Cause i simply use GNOME power manager as battery tool, supposed to be the default power manager in GNOME. I think it is kind of dull. I've found battery using up much more quickly under debian than it under windows(yes, i'm using a dual-booting laptop).
So, is this just because i choosed a unsuitable tool? Or it has any other reason. In the comparison mentioned above, I was doing some file work and/or running emacs On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Joe Emenaker wrote: > > I'm looking for a good battery charge/discharge profiler tool for my > > Ubuntu laptop. > > Of course I am sure that you know you are posting about Ubuntu to the > Debian laptop mailing list? The least you could do is to lie to us > and say you are running Debian when posting to a Debian list. :-) > > > A couple of years ago, I came across a really neat tool for Windows for > > estimating the time remaining until the battery is completely charged or > > discharged. It was pretty clever about how it went about it. It would > > ... > > tool was learning what "80%" /really/ meant to that battery. > > I have often wanted this too. And your other wishlist items as well. > As far as I know there isn't a tool that does exactly this for > GNU/Linux in general or on Debian in particular. If you find one I > would be interested in it. > > There are some useful tools available though. You might look at 'ibam'. > > IBAM is an advanced battery monitor for laptops, which uses > statistical and adaptive linear methods to provide accurate > estimations of minutes of battery left or of the time needed until > full recharge. It requires APM, ACPI or PMU. > > It needs some training. But given that it does perform fairly well. > Unfortunately it isn't tied into the system tray tools and so isn't > going to be a seemless integration there. It is available in gkrellm > if you use that stack. See the gkrellm-ibam package. > > Bob > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvMyzoACgkQ0pRcO8E2ULYdhACdGU6+dGFyC/JEBZ7ZKJ1DADeQ > QQIAnifmqo0x0oW6l6rSl4pqZdpuTG6z > =EbsH > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Zichen Chen
