Surface Pro 3 Battery

I installed 15.04, everything is running smoothly. One issue, however, is that I have no battery notifier on either gnome nor unity.

Q: How could I begin to trouble shoot this, if there is no fix, is there another app that I could install that will do the same thing?

2 Answers

First, check and see if you have a battery entry in /proc/.

ls /proc/acpi/

If the list you get back includes a 'battery' entry you can run:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/

Which will return the information on the battery.

Secondly, if the above ls /proc/acpi doesn't include an entry for 'battery' than you can install acpi with:

sudo apt-get install acpi

Once installed (you may need to reboot) you should be able to run:

acpi -b

and this will return the battery level information.

For more info on the acpi command, run man acpi

Github user neoreeps has been kind enough to include all the patchs, with instructions, in one place.