[ltp] Re: poll: how is your battery? (9-cell-battery lost about 25% capacity in 10 months)

[Uwe Bonnes]

Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:14, David Tansey wrote:
> > how do you test this? i'd like to know what my x40's 8-cell holds.
> This out of a R40 which is two years and 5 months old.
> chris@imogen chris $ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
> present:                 yes
> design capacity:         57600 mWh
> last full capacity:      37320 mWh

If you still have the CP partition, boot it and run the battery trainer for some hours/days? It gave me an improvement.

> > > > CPU/motherboard never seems to reach the battery when I feel for it,

Four levels of quoting. Arg! 
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