Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-02-02 Thread Flo
I did stumble across one remedy: plug in ac-adapter, unplug it, plug it in again, and the charging begins. well, not straight forward, but painless enough. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-21 Thread Flo
Haven't booted windows on this machine in years. and ubuntu doesn't show this effect here, either. What you say sounds like this: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#Installation_on_Debian_unstable_.28sid.29.2C_testing_.28squeeze.29_or_stable_.28lenny.29 but that would apply to thinkpads only,

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Florian Marienfeld wrote: > - battery charge is at e.g. 70% > - I plug in the ac connector > - $(acpi -a) says "on-line", but battery goes down > - after 1:15 hours, at 2% charge, recharging starts > - after 2:00 hours it gets to 100% Let me guess. My ThinkPad doesn't behave this way wen booted D

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
It wont help, but using squeeze and kde, I don't have this behavior. Looking thru it, I don't see any place to adjust that. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-20 Thread Florian Marienfeld
the battery is rather new and last for like 2 hours. I mean: - battery charge is at e.g. 70% - I plug in the ac connector - $(acpi -a) says "on-line", but battery goes down - after 1:15 hours, at 2% charge, recharging starts - after 2:00 hours it gets to 100% (the numbers are rough guesses) Sel

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-19 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Flo, 18.01.2010 tarihinde şöyle yazmış: > > Does any one know how to trigger charging the notebook battery? > apparently the policy with ac-adapter online is: "run down the battery, > start charging only when it's under 10%" (10% being a guess). > > Maybe this is a feature for longer battery life

Re: force charching in squeeze

2010-01-18 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 01. 2010 22:45:25 je Flo napisal(a): apparently the policy with ac-adapter online is: "run down the battery, start charging only when it's under 10%" (10% being a guess). If that's true, then the policy has changed from Lenny. In Lenny (with Gnome), the battery starts charging as s

force charching in squeeze

2010-01-18 Thread Flo
Hi, Does any one know how to trigger charging the notebook battery? apparently the policy with ac-adapter online is: "run down the battery, start charging only when it's under 10%" (10% being a guess). Maybe this is a feature for longer battery life, fine. but sometimes I want my battery charged