pre-severn the laptop (Dell Lattitude L400) would use apm- and I could use the apm utility on the command line to check the battery status. Does severn have any command line utilities to show the battery status, (hopefully temperature) as well. I had a quick look at http://grahame.angrygoats.net/acpi.shtml but that doesn't work straight off with severn. The reason for wanting these tools.... A little concerned (rebuilding the 2.6 test2 kernel and the fan never came on- this is running the severn default kernel). The machine decided to power itself off after half an hour. I want to make sure that severns kernel isn't stopping the fan coming on. Let the laptop cool down and tried rebuiliding the kernel again- same thing, no fans after 20 minutes and the laptop getting hot enough to burn. I've fallen back to appending acpi=off for now. I've kept the output of dmidecode and acpidmp if this would offer any help in tracking down the problem. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam dynamicinteraction co uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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