-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 03/12/2012 09:46 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Sorry for the late response. This is normally covered in the user's >> manual. What you do is first fully charge the battery. Then you >> unplug the power and let the system run down until it does an >> automatic shutdown. Then you charge it up again. Some systems come >> with a utility that runs the battery down, so you do not have to >> worry about your OS shutting the system down too soon. > > I did this when I first got the unit. And it SEEMed to run fine for 2 months with few power offs. > > And it was working just fine a couple weeks ago. My practice is friday afternoon to suspend then shut off on the powerstrip (turning the KVM, switch, AP and other sundries off). Saturday night I would power up and have 80% power left. It seems that two weekends ago, it when blewy, as it cold booted that saturday night. I fought with it all week and then on friday realized I had a battery problem. > > Now with the new battery, how with Fedora, am I going to run down the battery? I don't see that IBM has a Linux utility for this, oddly enough... > > It is usually a DOS or BIOS utility. I remember it being included with one Thinkpad I had. You normally do not want to do this from Linux or Windows, because the hard drive is not unmounted properly. I will have to see it The Ultimate Boot CD has the utility. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9eWzcACgkQqbQrVW3JyMS88ACbBaKB5cenbrf+MKRUgWCk8I26 +JkAn0E4YOY1xSnFVWWgn5LN0kxHaZXb =vK8O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
