[TriLUG] Linux laptop battery

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Sunday 03 February 2002 04:52 pm, you wrote:
> Have you changed your OS or APM lately?  I had an Acer that worked
> great with Win95.  

Yup.  Changed from Windows ME to Mandrake 8.1.

Here's another funny thing.  When I unplug the main power, apm -v still 
reports being on AC power.

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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