Re: Re: first shoot for smartbattery

Zdzisław A. Kaleta
2005-01-11T12:30:00Z

Dnia wtorek 11 stycznia 2005 12:44, Pedro Venda napisał:
> z.a.kaleta wrote:
> | Dnia wtorek 11 stycznia 2005 11:12, Pedro Venda napisa³:
> |>the smartbattery program is just a hack to see things working. people
> |>shouldn't be using it in "production".
> |>
> |>soon there will be an emulation driver that will allow you to use current
> |>battery monitoring tools.
> |>
> |>regards,
> |>pedro venda.
> |
> | Better such wonderfull hack then the situation when my laptop "died" in
> | the middle of important text before I have a chance to save it.
>
> true, but you knew there were no battery information, so you did it on your
> own risk.
Of course as almost always in Linux and hardware problem.
>
> if you didn't know... these things must be tested before we can rely on
> them. linux is developed by a community of interested users and developers,
> so you can't generally complain to anybody and nobody garantees driver
> implementation for your specific hardware. you had bad luck. my laptop shut
> itself down on me once, but because I forgot the AC-power was unplugged :-/
I don't plan co complain ewen if my laptop stop to work at all. I use linux
(debian) form more than 4 years now. From two years exlusively linux so I
know the risk. Se la vie.
>
> fortunately we learn mostly from mistakes, so it won't happen again.
>
> regards,
> pedro venda.
Again thank for your work.
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