On 10/08/2004 11:51 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > > Since recently, I have been having a problem with battery monitoring on > my iBook (white, dual USB). It fails to detect that the battery is full > - in fact, it thinks the battery is empty, so wants to shut down if the > power cord is not plugged in! This appears to be a fairly low-level > problem, since "cat /proc/apm" outputs a line ending with "1% -1 min".
A little more info about this: the battery level seen just dropped from 99% to 0% while running on battery, causing a shutdown before I could plug in the power cable. The result of "cat /proc/apm" is currently 0.5 1.1 0x00 0x01 0x03 0x08 0% -1 min -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
