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El 19/06/08 00:01 Felipe Sateler escribió:
> El 18/06/08 23:55 Kok, Auke escribió:
> > Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > I see that powertop 1.10 reads the sysfs interface to acpi. Great.
> > > However, I think that the reading is currently broken, for the
> > > following reasons:
> > >
> > > 1. It reads /sys/class/power_supply/<device>/energy_now which (at least
> > > on my debian box) doesn't exist. I think it should read charge_now.
> > > 2. It reads current_now as watts_drawn, I think it should be
> > > amperes_drawn
> > >
> > > It also appears that the units are not correctly calculated too.
> >
> > ok. feel free to take a stab at making a patch and post it here. I'll be
> > offline for a week but certainly will look into this next week when I get
> > back.
>
> OK, I took a shot at fixing this. The problem is that there are several
> charge sources available from sysfs, depending on the capabilities of the
> battery. In my case, the battery wasn't providing the energy_now attribute
> which tells the amount of µWh left, but I have charge_now which has the µAh
> left. Thus, I changed powertop.c to read both, and use energy_now if
> available, and use charge_now*voltage otherwise (which should be a
> reasonable approximation).
>
>
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler



Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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