spicctrl is a tool for the sony vaio notebook. It is for examble the only way I found to show the battery state. Get ebuild at http://www.int21.de/linux/spicctrl-1.2.ebuild
Created attachment 1562 [details] ebuild for spicctrl
Created attachment 1905 [details] fixed errors with lintool
Created attachment 2084 [details] Fixed some more lintool-warnings. should be okay now.
I added this to the Portage tree a while back... forgot to close out the bug.