[ltp] x61s battery won't charge

Jose Celestino linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:11:38 +0100


Words by Oleg Bartunov [Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:00:24AM +0400]:
> Hello everybody,
>
> last yestarday I noticed that battery doesn't charge. Icewm indicator
> shows 89%CP and doesn't changes. I use Linux 2.6.22.5 and had no such  
> problem with my extended battery. I removed AC, worked until 30%
> and turned off notebook. No changes at morning, then I tried to reboot to 
> Windows XP and battery become charge ! I wait until it charged
> to 87% and then boot Linux. First several minutes it looked like battery
> began to charge, but it stopped at 89%CP.
>

Do you have the tp_smapi module loaded ?

If so do:

cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh
cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT1/*_charge_thresh

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