[ltp] Battery dying

[Thomas Hood]

 --- Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> wrote: 
> I have an i1300 series Thinkpad. It exhibits some extremely funny battery
> (?) / apm (likely) problems.
> 
> Sometimes, while the power supply is plugged in, the battery charge shown
> (I use KDE charge monitor - results are similar with the GNOME applet, in
> any case /proc/apm ... shows the same result) plunges to zero, forcing me
> to reboot (if I don't, then the whole thing freezes after some time).

Might there be a loose connection in there somewhere?

> To
> check, I removed the power supply and rebooted. Upon logging in, I got a
> battery charge of about 96 %. This is puzzling. Implies that there is
> nothing wrong with the battery, but the apm has some quirks.
> 
> Btw, I use RH 7.1 (kernel 2.4.10)
> 
> I also have win98 on the other partition, but I hardly ever use it, so I
> do not know whether this wierd behaviour is repeatable on the other OS.

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