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

David Tansey linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:53:23 +0200


what's the CP partition? And is this battery trainer thing on the recovery =
CD?

-david

On 7/12/05, Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> 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
>=20
> If you still have the CP partition, boot it and run the battery trainer f=
or some hours/days? It gave me an improvement.
>=20
> > > > > CPU/motherboard never seems to reach the battery when I feel for =
it,
>=20
> Four levels of quoting. Arg!
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