Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:59AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: Have a look at the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info. In particular, compare the values of design capacity and

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-13 Thread Mark Neidorff
difficult to say if it is working. The temperature of the laptop decreased so I think the card should be off. But the optirun command doesn't work for some reason. The final outcome is that I don't know if the card is off and maybe this could be the source off the battery problem. Is there a way

Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Neroni
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

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, 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

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: 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

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread mark
On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: 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

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 09:24 -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: On 12/03/13 11:17, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, Andrea Neroni wrote: Have a look at the output of cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info. In particular, compare the values of design capacity and last

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Neroni
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

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Neroni
decreased so I think the card should be off. But the optirun command doesn't work for some reason. The final outcome is that I don't know if the card is off and maybe this could be the source off the battery problem. Is there a way to check the status of the discrete card? Andrea

Re: Battery problem

2013-03-12 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:17:21 + Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:24:20AM +, 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

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:08:28 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message 4f42b64c.3010...@gmail.com: On 18/02/2012 22:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote: I've read about the freezer thing wonder if it works. ..every time this far, but dragging along a freezer to boot up a laptop, sort of defeats the laptop

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message 4f3e4d4f.6090...@gmail.com: Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/02/2012 22:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message 4f3e4d4f.6090...@gmail.com: Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I

Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage wrong, the most critical problem being that the machine shuts off without any previous warning. I wonder where the problem might be. Indeed this battery is

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge percentage wrong, the most critical problem being that the machine shuts off without any previous

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-17 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I am running XFCE 4.8 on debian wheezy on my laptop and since about two weeks the xfce Power Manager gets the battery charge