Hi Terry, > Except that with the battery connected, it thinks the laptop isn't on > mains power so it does a safe shutdown. Don't ask me why. ... > The problem is that I cannot run it under Linux with the battery > connected, so those battery health commands are not available to me. > The battery icon does not even appear on the Taskbar!
Ditch the GUI. Ditch the KDE desktop. They're getting in the way with power management which is constraining. Try a different desktop if you've others installed. Or see if there's a console-only rescue mode. Or boot from a USB stick with some other Linux distribution. It's ‘userspace’ programs which are interpreting the power situation and forcing you to shut down, not the Linux kernel. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2024-10-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
