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 97.3%
> > charge. It has been showing < 100% for several days and never reaches
> > 100%. The battery is less than 3 months old. I'm running F11 with all
> > the latest updates.
>
> On some laptops the charger does not get started if the battery charge
> is greater than some percentage (perhaps 95%). Saves pointless wear
> on the battery for very little gain. My Lenovo laptop claims to work
> that way, though I've seen it go into the "charging" state when the
> battery was already near full charge.
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.
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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