From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.21]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 1863734 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:11:44 -0400 Message-ID: <480400D1.7050909@2rosenthals.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:11:45 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080326 MultiZilla/1.8.3.4e SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Battery gauges (was: Re: [eCS T60/T61] Panorama vs. SNAP) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 04/14/08 08:55 pm, Chuck McKinnis thus wrote : > Carl Gehr wrote: >> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:16 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote: >> >>> Carl Gehr wrote: >>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:17 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: >>>> >> OTOH, my power/battery widget seems to work OK. [It's not the beer >> barrel style, though. It looks like a battery, blue on the bottom with >> a yellow segment that grows as the battery is used.] >> >> Thanks, again. >> Carl > > I pulled the plug on mine and get the same as you. I have yet to try > the "beer" widget to see what it looks like on battery. If it shuts > down in 6 minutes, I will not be too happy. > The BeerBattery widget seems to work fine on Diane's machine (6-cell battery, not the 9-cell). The machine also seems to get some great runtime on battery (over two hours, even with the Wi-Fi going full blast with streaming video from youtube.com). When I run the ACPIBattery.exe utility from the ACPI utilities directory, I have to specify the "s" parameter or I get pretty much null output. I did not spend much time capturing the screen output to debug it, though (hey, it really *is* still technically tax season, so the time I spent with it today was already over-the-top!). -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------