Re: [ACPI] Is it possibile that ACPi messes my battery ...

[Francisco C. <fdc...@st...>]

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 17:32, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 October 2002 18:05, Gilberto Ficara wrote:
> > velenux@ares:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> > present:                 yes
> > design capacity:         53280 mWh
> > last full capacity:      15969 mWh
> > battery technology:      rechargeable
> > design voltage:          14800 mV
> > design capacity warning: 1583 mWh
> > design capacity low:     0 mWh
> > capacity granularity 1:  1480 mWh
> > capacity granularity 2:  1480 mWh
> > model number:            6000
> > serial number:           1
> > battery type:            4
> > OEM info:                 COMPAQ
> >
> > same problem.
> > The notebook is a Compaq EVO N115 (pretty similar to the presario 700
> > series, I think).
>
> You battery gets older. Its normal.


It just can't be normal! My presario 700 is 8 months old! It should run on 
batteries for almost 2 hours, but by doing just word processing i can't get 
more than 1 hour (in good days...).



> Read
>
>   http://www.buchmann.ca/Chap10-page6.asp
>
> especially the simple guidelines at the end of the article.
>
> Frank

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