RE: [iPAQ] Battery status

Until yesterday, there was no way to read the battery status from Linux.
Now there is an obscure way to do so, documented in the linux kernel in
include/linux/h3600_ts.h. On the iPAQ, the touchscreen, battery charger,
some of the buttons, and the front light are controlled by a small
microcontroller. Acccess to these is provided by a single driver.

Our plan is to provide a /proc/apm (or maybe /proc/acpi) interface so that
standard battery monitors will work, along with apmd. I collected some
links at http://www.handhelds.org/projects/power-management.html

Contributions in this area are welcome.

-Jamey

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cpt_Kirks [mailto:tkirksey@bigfoot.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 12:30 AM
> To: ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: [iPAQ] Battery status
>
>
> >Uh, so maybe this is a stupid question, but how do I tell
> how much battery
> >is remaining on my ipaq? (With "you can't" being a likely answer.)
>
> A more likely answer would be, "No, but you're welcome to
> write a battery
> monitor". :-)
>
> Tom
>
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Received on Tue Sep 19 05:23:10 2000