[ltp] Battery problem

[Thomas Wimmer]

Marek Pawelec schrieb:
> Hi.
> 
> I have a tp600X for about two weeks, and week has passed since I've
> installed linux on it.
> 
> The problem is: when I work on battery, the APM shows slow DC discharge
> to about 49% (takes about 70 minutes, it goes slower when I do the same 
> text editing under Win 98), and then it rapidly jumps from 49 to 7%, 
> threatening with suspend. 
> 
> What's going on? Is it the battery problem? 

battery is dying.

buy a new battery.

> BTW, I've earlier discharged the battery completely by working with the
> charger connected to a dead line (I haven't noticed), and it took more
> than three hours.
> 
> Wasaty


Thomas


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