Battery life estimation considered impossible?

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 05:35:39 EDT 2008


On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>    > Can anyone opine as to whether it's possible/feasible right now to
>    > estimate number of minutes of battery power remaining?
>
>  You could look at gnome-power-manager, which performs a principled
>  estimation -- a matrix of previous discharge rate intervals indexed by
>  the charge at the time and the actual average discharge rate during that
>  interval.  OHM/suspend complicates everything, though.

I *think* Richard mentioned that he planned to move the
gnome-power-manager logic to OHM at some point.

Marco



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