Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Nicolas George
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > I think fastest and easiest way is to swap current disk with another (if it > is available of course) and install Evaluation version of Windows 10 > Enterprise. [1] Unfortunately, switching the disk is not an option. Booting from a SD card could work, but

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 18:04, Marko Randjelovic wrote: Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the backup image I made. There is a program

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 17:26, Nicolas George wrote: Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your laptop using SNID code.

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Hi all, On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 13:26:12 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Now I need a way to apply it; apparently I need some way to boot > Windows. I hope I will not need to overwrite the complete drive with the > backup image I made. There is a program named 'flashrom' in Debian, but I don't know

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Nicolas George
Alexander V. Makartsev (12021-02-08): > Probably something to do with USB-Charger feature. > Acer got a BIOS update 1.09 [1] that claims to fix similar issue. > I don't know what is your model exactly, so look up BIOS update for your > laptop using SNID code. > > [1]

Re: Battery drain with poweroff

2021-02-08 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 08.02.2021 15:01, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. On my new Acer TravelMate Spin B3, running recent Bullseye, I have noticed a strange battery drain when the computer is powered off: it loses about 1% of the total battery charge every hour, which makes a quarter of the battery in a day. The drain

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
Darac == Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes: There's a great utility called ibam which pays attention to the historical performance of your battery. The main benefit is if your The == The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: Try ibam, and (if you use gkrellm) gkrellm-ibam. I've

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:55:06AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there a good utility out there to predict the remaining running/charging time of my battery? For the remaining runtime most of the utilities out there seem to just divide the remaining capacity by the current power usage,

Re: Battery performance predictor

2015-03-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 03/16/2015 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: Is there a good utility out there to predict the remaining running/charging time of my battery? For the remaining runtime most of the utilities out there seem to just divide the remaining capacity by the current power usage, which doesn't

Re: Battery level in Testing

2013-10-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/10/2013 12:02, Erwan David a écrit : Hello all Since yesterday my KDE from testing does not detect the battery level and acts as though it is zero (lenovo T530, it worked before). Windowd on the same laptop show 99%, thus the battery is not empty. What can I do to detect where the

Re: Battery level in Testing

2013-10-26 Thread Erwan David
Le 26/10/2013 18:02, Erwan David a écrit : Le 26/10/2013 12:02, Erwan David a écrit : Hello all Since yesterday my KDE from testing does not detect the battery level and acts as though it is zero (lenovo T530, it worked before). Windowd on the same laptop show 99%, thus the battery is not

Re: battery

2013-08-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Darac Marjal wrote: Perhaps so, but if the charge isn't increasing, then that's basically full. Probably so. Batteries usually note three main values in their fuel gagues (a small chip in the battery): current charge, current maximum charge and designed maximum charge. The designed maximum

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows incorrect info. I plug in the charger

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:29:49AM +0100, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger the battery charge indicator in gnome shows

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/08/13 12:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing the system back up and connect the charger

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread cletusjenkins
It's a feature of modern laptops. The idea is that the battery lasts longer if you avoid full charge/discharge cycles. Mine is on 80% too - it's normal. As for how you tell it to charge to 100% because you're planning a bus trip - anyone out there, please let me know. Regards,

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread cletusjenkins
http://www.samsung.com/us/article/tips--tricks-extending-notebook-battery-life it's called Smart charging, so I guess it should have a config option somewhere. Philip Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just recently discovered the

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread David Guntner
cletusjenkins grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Thank god I never bought a samsung laptop. I am amazed that samsung has just recently discovered the amazing feature of not over-charging batteries. Funny... my laptop is a Samsung that I've had for a few years now, and it has a feature under

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:15:03AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: snip... The cycle only does damage when the battery is discharged beyond 50-60%, which a li-on battery should not allow. Laptop batteries can and sometimes do go to total discharge if left on battery

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
On Tuesday 12 March 2013 10:00:06 am Andrea Neroni wrote: I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. Hi and thanks for

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 and

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
I was thinking of top too, but even if top shouldn't show something, it still could be, that CPU frequency scaling and energy saving for the graphics and HDD are different between the Win and Debian installs. Hi and thanks for replying. Top seems clean, processes are normal. I was also

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: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:15:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I receive the message `Battery is now fully charged' on my Asus EEE 1000HE under Debian Lenny 5 w. kernel 2.26-2-686, but only once I have unplugged the cable? For example, the PC might be on AC power for 15 hours, and say nothing. If

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: It looks not so normal to me. I am reassured. But looking at Debian wiki for EEE systems it seems to be a known issue with power management: *** http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement Power management On some models, the battery info is

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:46:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: *** http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Configure#Powermanagement Power management On some models, the battery info is not very precise (jumps from 10% to 100%, no rate information, etc.). Apparently, this is

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. From those to whom much is given, much is expected.

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:54:56 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: And your BIOS version is the latest available? :-? Sure! Ouch! O:-) How about trying with debian-eeepc-devel¹ list? Maybe they provide more information about this as they develop the tools for these specific

Re: `Battery is now fully charged:' why do I receive this after having unplugged the cable?

2010-04-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: ¹ http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel I try it! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You find out who

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). The output of your command is the same as the info box you can see on my screenshot. I

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: El Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:23:32 +0100, Merciadri Luca escribió: That is also what I think. However, these are out-of-the-box applets, and they should consequently be compatible (i.e. give the same results). The output of your command is the same as the info box you can see

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Maybe this is something worth to report it. And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly the same remaining time? Yes :-) If you carefully look the picture I sent, you will see the

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:04:37 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Maybe this is something worth to report it. And when you put the cursor on the other applet, does it show exactly the same remaining time? Yes :-) If you carefully

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a difference on both indicators?

Re: Battery status is not the same using two different sources of info

2010-03-20 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:58 +0100, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) You can see, at the right, at the top of the screen, that 4h. and 1 min. are still available from the battery. Now, putting the mouse on the green battery gives 3h30 min. left. Why is there such a difference

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-15 Thread Rocky Ou
On 7/13/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can any of you tell me how can I enable AC Adaptor and Control Method Battery please?As far as I remember, the ACPI stuff is compiled as modules in the stockDebian kernels. (I have been using self-compiled kernels for a long time, therefore I am

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 17:01:06 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: On 7/13/06, Florian Kulzer wrote: Can any of you tell me how can I enable AC Adaptor and Control Method Battery please? As far as I remember, the ACPI stuff is compiled as modules in the stock Debian kernels. (I have been using

Re: Battery monitor and sound adjust short cut

2006-07-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 22:10:45 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: Hey List, I'm using Debian Sid on my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop. I want to enable the power monitor function for my computer. But when I go to Control Center--Power Control --Laptop Battery of KDE I got the following message.

Re: battery power applet nowhere to be found

2004-08-11 Thread Brian Samek
Never mind. It appears after reboot. I thought this was linux! Why do I have to reboot? :-) On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:34 am, Brian Samek wrote: I installed sarge and apt-getted kde and acpid. Where's the battery power applet? The control panel has show battery monitor checked. And I

Re: battery power applet nowhere to be found

2004-08-11 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Brian Samek: On Wednesday 11 August 2004 10:34 am, Brian Samek wrote: I installed sarge and apt-getted kde and acpid. Where's the battery power applet? The control panel has show battery monitor checked. And I can't add it by right-clicking the Never mind. It appears

RE: Battery level monitor for Linux and X11?

1997-02-21 Thread Paul Rightley
'xapm' works just as well as the utility provided with W95 on my Thinkpad 365XD. Paul On 21-Feb-97 Robert Nicholson wrote: dmesg reports the correct information from the BIOS so that APM stuff is working fine. So does anybody know of a good notebook battery level monitor? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM