Hello Jack, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My iBook is 32 months old and around the 24th month I noticed a sudden > loss in battery performance: I thought it was related to some changes in > power management under linux (never really had the nerves to use OSX as > long as the battery life...), but (using a small .app called > "coconutBattery") I have now found out that only 69% of my battery is > still alive after *only* 167 charge cycles.
How are the 69% calculated? > My question is: could you make a small "survey" on the health of your > batteries, How should I do this? > to see if we (as linux users) have a problem with that or if we are > pretty much average? Would it be possible to access such information > from linux too? Maybe something in /proc, who knows. Do you search /proc/pmu/battery_0? % cat /proc/pmu/battery_0 flags : 00000011 charge : 2540 max_charge : 2549 current : 0 voltage : 12374 > Oh, and since we're on the topic: did anybody of you experience problems > with your batteries, such as overheating, swelling and such? My battery gets very hot while charging, but this is was ever so. Bye, Jörg. -- "Hey, dad, you see how this man can twist his fingers? Amazing, isn't it?" "No, son, not really. He's been using Emacs for ten years..." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
