the battery is rather new and last for like 2 hours. I mean: - battery charge is at e.g. 70% - I plug in the ac connector - $(acpi -a) says "on-line", but battery goes down - after 1:15 hours, at 2% charge, recharging starts - after 2:00 hours it gets to 100%
(the numbers are rough guesses) Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Flo, 18.01.2010 tarihinde şöyle yazmış: >> Does any one know how to trigger charging the notebook battery? >> apparently the policy with ac-adapter online is: "run down the battery, >> start charging only when it's under 10%" (10% being a guess). >> >> Maybe this is a feature for longer battery life, fine. but sometimes I >> want my battery charged NOW. I cant't find the place to tune this. it's >> debian squeeze with gnome on an acer travelmate 4002 wlmi. > > Do you mean that after plugging it in, the battery charge will continue > to drop until below 10% but then it starts charging and goes to 100% > without problems? (What would happen now if you unplug and re-plug at > 50%?) Or by saying that it won't charge under 10%, do you mean that it > also never exceeds that? If so, I think your battery has gotten old. > This is what happened when my batteries got old. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
