Battery Status Errors

Keith Clark keithclark at waterloosubstop.com
Sat Oct 8 01:30:16 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 15:29 +0200, suvayu ali wrote:
> Welcome to Fedora!
> 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Keith Clark
> <keithclark at waterloosubstop.com> wrote:
> >
> > I see by the battery icon when I'm plugged in that I'm 100% charged.
> > When I unplug, my laptop immediately shows that I'm at a critical
> > battery state and goes into hibernation.  I'm not sure why.
> 
> Apart from what Ranjan said, the "action" based on battery status can
> be different from one setup to another. Can you confirm your power
> management setup doesn't set a high threshold for going to
> hibernation?
> 
> To give you an (counter) example, usually the default is threshold for
> hibernation is 20% I think. But my battery lasts over 7 hours, for me
> 20% means more than 1 hr. So I reduced it to 7% and now I get prompts
> about 30 mins before my laptop is dead. In your case this could be set
> to a much higher threshold by mistake.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
> Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Where to find this percentage setting?

Keith




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