Re: Making APM more accurate

2002-09-08 Thread pa3gcu
On Sunday 08 September 2002 09:43, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > The battery in this laptop is over two years old, so I can't rule out the > possiblity that this is battery induced. I am just trying to avoid laying > out the money (about $125) it will cost to find out. > > What I was thinking, thou

Re: Making APM more accurate

2002-09-08 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
The battery in this laptop is over two years old, so I can't rule out the possiblity that this is battery induced. I am just trying to avoid laying out the money (about $125) it will cost to find out. What I was thinking, though, was that apm(d) would track this internally by measuring the st

Re: Making APM more accurate

2002-09-07 Thread pa3gcu
On Friday 06 September 2002 17:32, Theo. Sean Schulze wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to make apm's or apmd's estimates of the time left on a > battery charge more accurate? > > I just booted my laptop (a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS with the stock hardware) > after several days of not having used it. A

Making APM more accurate

2002-09-06 Thread Theo. Sean Schulze
Hello, Is there a way to make apm's or apmd's estimates of the time left on a battery charge more accurate? I just booted my laptop (a Sony VAIO PCG-C1XS with the stock hardware) after several days of not having used it. APM reported as I logged in that I had 39% battery charge left and 136