On 11/18/2013 11:07 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > On 18 November 2013 20:53, Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is Lubuntu safe for laptop batteries? I got a notice a while ago that >> the battery was charging even though it hadn't been unplugged today. I >> also notice that the battery icon went from fully charged (96%) down to >> (95%) >> >> Loading acpi and running 'acpi -V' I see that capacity went from 5040 to >> 5039 during the last hour or two: >> >> Battery 0: design capacity 5573 mAh, last full capacity 5040 mAh = 90% >> >> Battery 0: design capacity 5573 mAh, last full capacity 5039 mAh = 90% >> >> Is there any way to check up on this? Is Unity safer? >> >> Regards, >> /Lars >> > Hi Lars, > > mine doesn't spend too long unplugged from the power. But when I do run it > on battery it behaves as expected. I do have a nearly new battery in > piglet, as the other couldn't hold a charge (it was a mis-used windows > machine in its previous life). I've certainly no problems getting an hour > out of running at full power (no dim screen etc). > > Regards, > > Phill. > > Ok. Thanks. I've added some logging to watch things as well.
However, when running off battery, it really goes quickly. I get somewhere between 2 and 3 hours, so less than half OS X on the same hardware. Regards, /Lars -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
