I am coding a battery daemon for my laptop in C. When I print the value of ptr->ai_batt_time (machine/apm_bios.h) it is returning 0. -1 would incline the device isnt supported, but why is it returning 0 ? Thanks in advance, -- Liam J .Foy liamfoy[at]sepulcrum!org http://www.sepulcrum.org