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From: Pavel Machek <pavel-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Stefan Schmidt
	<stefan-OrPQZGeq07wqhVmZOOOmNx2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Battery cycle count on IBM Thinkpads.
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:46:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051120214624.GC2556@spitz.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051119230734.GA4117@susi>

On Sun 20-11-05 00:07:34, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Does somebody know, how i can read the cycle counter for battery
> charge on IBM Thinkpads?
> You can read the number with "IBM Battery MaxiMiser" under windows.
> I hope it could be possible to read the value the same way as other 
> values from /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info were read.
> Is there documentation for vendor specific things like cycle count?

You may be able to talk to smartbattery directly (using i2c), and
get that info... expect to do some programming...
							Pavel

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-20 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-19 23:07 Battery cycle count on IBM Thinkpads Stefan Schmidt
2005-11-20 21:46 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20051120214624.GC2556-/Rtfo+muvtdI+ieYp0uEEg@public.gmane.org>
2005-11-21  8:56     ` Stefan Schmidt
2005-11-22 20:42     ` Stefan Schmidt
2005-12-13 10:11     ` Stefan Schmidt

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