power managment problems

[Xavier Gonzalez]

I appreciate all the feedback. However, it turn out to be that IBM
T42's need to be shutdown and left alone for a while if the battery
drops to critical leves in order to recharge. So, it was not the
application but IBM's default power settings.
They recommend to buy a second battery and a recharger for a quick fix
of this type of problems.

For future reference, if you come across this question again, you
might consider telling them to read their laptop manual (as I
should've done before getting paranoid).

Thanks anyway,

-Xavier


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:32:35 -0400, Robert Locke <rlocke at ralii.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:28, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
> <snip>
> > I would trust in the T42 light. My Gateway m350 also has its battery
> > status sometimes incorrectly reported. Something like I have a fuly
> > charged battery, as my notebook lights say me, but kdelaptop keeps
> > saying me that battery is only 95% charged and doesn't change that
> > whatever time I keep the ac pluged in. Later, if I reboot it says my
> > battery is fully charged, other times it keeps saying me 95%. So I think
> > it may be something with apm not being able to report correctly.
> <snip>
> 
> I think your question is different....  Y'all are aware that most BIOSes
> won't instruct the battery to recharge if it is "near" capacity, right?
> So if the light is saying fully charged and apmd or acpi are reporting
> more than like 95% capacity, there is no conflict, they are in sync and
> apmd and acpi are reporting accurately....  If the capacity drops to low
> 90s or lower, then the little light will say charging and apmd and acpi
> will report the lower number....
> 
> Now the earlier query did sound like a misreporting so is most likely a
> bad BIOS/apmd interaction and, yes, I would believe the BIOS generated
> light before the information produced by the application.
> 
> --Rob
> 
> 
> 
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