[ltp] Battery dying

[Tod Harter]

Well, I know that once in a while apmd seems to "miss" a bios notification. 
For instance my A20p the other day was reporting that it was on battery power 
and "charging", even though it was plugged in.  Indeed it was charging fine 
and once I rebooted the apm command and the KDE battery meter docklet 
returned from lalaland. Its just one of those things. There may be a bug in 
the apm bios on your machine or maybe even a glitch in your battery that 
causes it to report some absurd charging condition once in a while. I'd try 
playing with apm settings in the kernel and/or see if the problem goes away 
with a different battery if you have one available to test with. 

On Thursday 08 November 2001 14:30, you wrote:
>  --- Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
> > I think I mentioned that it is *not* a hardware problem apparently.
> >
> > When I reboot with the power supply disconnected, the charge is up to 96
> > % even after it had forced me to reboot after giving me a 0 % charge
> > notification.
> >
> > I am quite certain that there is no "ghost" recharging it from 0 % to 96
> > % in the 1-2 minutes it takes to reboot, without a power supply connected
> > :)
>
> Forgive me if you've already answered this question, but
> have you tried a different battery?
>
> --
> Thomas
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