[TriLUG] apm gives wierd values for old battery

[Randy Barlow]

On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 16:13 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> With the old battery, the laptop takes about 30mins to 
> get to 73% charge, when the laptop hibernates. I would 
> expect if the battery had reduced capacity, that it would 
> show say 10% in 30mins.

As I understand it, it's the battery that reports to the system what
it's capacity and charge are.  And when batteries get old they often
times become bad at doing do accurately.  A lot of hibernate scripts
will poll the battery for two things: 1) the battery being below a
certain reported percentage charge and, 2) the battery reporting itself
as being at "critical" state.  I'd bet your battery is doing #2 (check
the logs for the power events...)

Randy Barlow
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