Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 18:17 -0600, John E. Perry wrote: >> Hans Petter Jansson wrote: > ...have you tried the GNOME Power Manager?
OK, I tried it -- it works great! It says both of my batteries are about dead -- either damaged or "very old" (in fact, 1-1/2 year old), giving just 47% and 44% of new capacity (now, how do they know that??). This (the present capacity) they estimate at about 1-3/4 hours, which seems to be about right. But then, I don't remember these batteries ever giving much more than this, though I haven't really paid close attention. It's a bit disconcerting that there are practically no control options compared to the KDE power manager; but everything I really need is there. I like the 8 graphs of various trend files it can display. I like its showing me the readout of the battery controller information. I didn't see any evidence of statistical evaluation; the readout says the batteries were designed for 88.8Wh capacity, and the one presently in the machine has only 44.8Wh capacity remaining. It's also nice that when I killed the KDE power manager and started the gnome power manager, KDE pm stayed dead, and Gnome pm kept coming back even through hibernation and reboots. Thanks, Hans Petter. I hope the KDE people get their power management act together soon, even though the gnome power manager appears to work fine under KDE, and I don't really see a need to go back. John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
