On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:09:55PM +0000, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> What I meant by saying "use ACPI" is that are there any commands I can
> use to see how much battery status remains, or any way I can get the
> GNOME battery monitor to query ACPI and show me the battery status
> etc. I found a document on the NetBSD docs page that tell you how to
> use the various apm commands etc; I was hoping to find something
> similar for ACPI.

envstat -r

does the right thing for me.. In your dmesg, do you see acpibat ? How
about the other "dmesg | grep acpi" lines?

Cheers,

Patrick