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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