Re: Battery granularity problem

2005-12-22 Thread Detlev Casanova
> I always (try to) fully charge the battery, and I could use 25% extra > battery time... But I'm a bit confused as to how this all works, because > the battery monitors all do show 100% fully charged (also in Windows). It compares the last full capacity and the remaining capacity (shown by 'cat

Re: Battery granularity problem

2005-12-22 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 00:04 +0100, Detlev Casanova wrote: > The granularity means how precise are the informations shown by the ACPI, I > think ;-) Ah, that makes sense and in that case, the numbers are rather large indeed. I have no idea how to fix that, though. > The last full capacity can be

Re: Battery granularity problem

2005-12-21 Thread Detlev Casanova
Hi. > I don't know what the granularity means, or if it's actually used for > anything. I'm more concerned about 'last full capacity', which is about > 20% smaller than the design capacity, but maybe that's normal as well. The granularity means how precise are the informations shown by the ACPI,

Re: Battery granularity problem

2005-12-21 Thread Koen Vermeer
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:44 +0100, Detlev Casanova wrote: > Is it normal that I have BAT1 instead of BAT0 ? On my Acer (TravelMate 6003 LMi) I also only have BAT1 and BAT2 - no BAT0. My output: $cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info present: yes design capacity: 4400 mAh last f

Battery granularity problem

2005-12-21 Thread Detlev Casanova
Hello, debian detlev # cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info present: yes design capacity: 4000 mAh last full capacity: 3456 mAh battery technology: rechargeable design voltage: 14800 mV design capacity warning: 420 mAh design capacity low: