On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:17:21 +0000 Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +0000, Andrea Neroni wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > I'm experiencing a wierd battery problem and I'd like to know if anyone > > have seen the same. > > > > When I turn on Debian the battery is charged. acpi tells me there are > > still 3 hours > > of charge and everything is fine. The battery is relatively new and the > > maximum capicity for > > acpi is the 94% of the total, so fine. > > After 2 minutes (really 2 minutes!!!) the charge goes from the previous > > level to 8% no matter > > what you are doing or how much charged was the battery before, and only > > 10 > > minutes of time are left. > > Have a look at the output of "cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info". In > particular, compare the values of "design capacity" and "last full > capacity". If "last full capacity" is significantly lower than "design > capacity", then the battery is dying. The jump you're seeing is due to > the charge profile calibration being out of date in the battery (this > might be updatable, but it won't alter your run time). Just FTR, on my system (Squeeze on a ThinkPad T61, using the tp_smapi module), that information is under /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/* Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130312225257.151fe4dd.cele...@gmail.com