Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread g
James Wilkinson wrote: > g wrote: >> james, this is not to insult or hurt your feelings, but, from what you have >> posted, you do not know much about batteries. especially when it comes to >> cycling, ie, charging and discharging. > > I think you’ve got me confused with other posters. not rea

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread James Wilkinson
g wrote: > james, this is not to insult or hurt your feelings, but, from what you have > posted, you do not know much about batteries. especially when it comes to > cycling, ie, charging and discharging. I think you’ve got me confused with other posters. > presuming that you battery is lithium-io

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 09:03 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman : > > OK What's the best way to request that? Would it get generated as a > > consequence of the power manager RFE? Or should I file it separately? > > Anything special about kernel feature requests? > > Well, y

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/9/18 Jatin K : > well...  I'm using tp_smapi on my IBM ThinkPad R51 .. with fedora 11 and it > works fine for me . Sure, I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm saying it's not in the upstream kernel. Richar.d -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.r

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread g
Jatin K wrote: > please forgive me if I've hurt someone's feelings by posting > the link here or I have done any mistake no hurt here. definitely not a mistake. offering knowledge is never wrong. i already had site bookmarked. have not read all yet. in time i will. i have found a lot

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread Jatin K
On 09/18/2009 02:56 PM, g wrote: James Wilkinson wrote: Jatin K wrote: please visit *http://www.batteryuniversity.com/* .. and gain some knowledge abt batteries Was that supposed to be general advice? (If so, thank-you – but I’m not sure why it was necessary.)

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread Jatin K
On 09/18/2009 01:33 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: 2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman: OK What's the best way to request that? Would it get generated as a consequence of the power manager RFE? Or should I file it separately? Anything special about kernel feature requests? Well, you can file a ke

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread g
James Wilkinson wrote: > Jatin K wrote: >> please visit *http://www.batteryuniversity.com/* .. and gain >> some knowledge abt batteries > > Was that supposed to be general advice? (If so, thank-you – but I’m not > sure why it was necessary.) james, this is not to insult or hurt your feeli

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman : > OK What's the best way to request that?  Would it get generated as a > consequence of the power manager RFE?  Or should I file it separately? > Anything special about kernel feature requests? Well, you can file a kernel bug if you want, but it's a fair chunk of new f

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread James Wilkinson
Jatin K wrote: > please visit *http://www.batteryuniversity.com/* .. and gain > some knowledge abt batteries Was that supposed to be general advice? (If so, thank-you – but I’m not sure why it was necessary.) Or did you feel that there was some mis-information being given out? In which case,

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:52 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman : > > The Lenovo power monitor on the XP side of my dual-boot laptop > > recommends not starting the charge cycle until the charge drops to 80%. > > I've been considering filing an RFE for the GNOME power manager

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Hughes
2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman : > The Lenovo power monitor on the XP side of my dual-boot laptop > recommends not starting the charge cycle until the charge drops to 80%. > I've been considering filing an RFE for the GNOME power manager applet > to make that a user-settable parameter. We'd need kerne

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:32 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote: > Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several > > weeks. I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into > > AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread Jatin K
On 09/17/2009 01:29 PM, Prasan wrote: This may be down to the bios software. I run my laptop (a Dell Inspiron 1525) off AC power in both linux (F11 and rawhide) and windows vista and the battery charge gradually declines over the months, but the battery doesn't charge unless I unplug the AC brief

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread Prasan
> This may be down to the bios software. I run my laptop (a Dell Inspiron > 1525) off AC power in both linux (F11 and rawhide) and windows vista and the > battery charge gradually declines over the months, but the battery doesn't > charge unless I unplug the AC briefly while the computer in on, whi

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-17 Thread M A Young
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Paolo Galtieri wrote: This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several weeks.  I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% charge.  It has been showing < 100% for sev

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Robert Nichols
Paolo Galtieri wrote: This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several weeks. I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% charge. It has been showing < 100% for several days and never

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:51 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several > > weeks. I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged > > into AC power for several days now,

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:51 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several > weeks. I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged > into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% > charge. It has been sho

Re: Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Paolo Galtieri writes: This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several weeks.  I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% charge.  It has been showing < 100% for several days and neve

Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

2009-09-16 Thread Paolo Galtieri
This is something that has been driving me crazy over the last several weeks. I have my laptop plugged into AC power and has been plugged into AC power for several days now, but the battery applet shows 97.3% charge. It has been showing < 100% for several days and never reaches 100%. The battery