> Yes it was a change in behaviour.
Dead battery, then. It happens.
> No success with using
>
> /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
It might be somewhere else on your distro - have a dig around /proc/acpi .
It's an interesting part of the filesystem :-)
Vic.
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