>>>>> "masik" == masik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> A funny thing that does happen is that on my battery meter >> under gkrellm, I see the numbers go down, and they match the >> LEDs on the battery. But the moment it hits around 50%, BLAM, >> goes to sleep... Any ideas about that? >> > Hi, > I had the same experience. What helped was to leave the > batteries discharge completely a couple of times without any > power management running (/etc/init.d/pmud stop). It looks like > a calibration issue as although the gkrellm battery plugin was > blinking red my Pismo could run happily for another hour or > more. Pmud probably put the machine to sleep mode too early. It > went back to normal (better extrapolations of battery power > left) after a 2 or 3 cycles. Cool. I'll try that. Thanks! Marshal