[TriLUG] Linux laptop battery

[Chris Merrill]

Have you changed your OS or APM lately?  I had an Acer that worked
great with Win95.  I upgraded to Win98 and the _next day_ I started
to experience symptons similar to what you described (runs for 5
minutes - then the APM shuts the computer down).  I never did
solve the problem (tried to uninstall 98, with no luck) - fortunately
the computer was no longer needed for mobile use.

M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:

> Can anyone help me determine if a laptop battery is dead?
> 
> Symptoms:
> 
> 1.  Laptop runs no longer than 5 minutes without AC
> 2.  cat /proc/apm gives this:  1.14 1.2 0x03 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ?
> 3.  apm -v gives this :
> APM BIOS 1.2 (kernel driver 1.14)
> AC on-line, no system battery
> 4. battery is installed
> 5. charging light goes out pretty quickly after being reinstalled


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Chris Merrill
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