xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E?

[Matthew N. Dodd]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 07:23:33PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>> The Linux people have tpctl (http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/), and I
>> vaguely remember that somebody started a similar project for FreeBSD,
>> but I don't think it was ever finished.
>
> I did a quick hack to dump out these registers from userland. From what 
> I've read of the acpi stuff for ThinkPads, this frobs the same register 
> space. I'm more comfortable going with that.

The 'smapi' BIOS driver provides an interface and I have a read only 
utility that can pull info:  ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/smapi.tar.gz

I wasn't able to get 'write' functions to work; instant reboot.  Since the 
laptop I was testing against (560E) isn't usable anymore I haven't played 
with it recently.

I'd love it if someone was able to find the problem.

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