Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: Yes, try equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to find all the files involved - its quite extensive. Ha! I remember ... I had to uninstall this package because it kept spinning my hard drive down. mplayer will pause momentarily (very annoying) and the life of the hard drive would probably be reduced considerably. Given that this is a rather old laptop I decided not to risk it. -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
Yes, try equery f app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools to find all the files involved - its quite extensive. BillK On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 06:54 +0100, Mick wrote: laptop-mode-tools
[gentoo-user] Battery knock out
Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Thursday 16 April 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before. Right, that's what I thought too. The battery cannot 'keep its charge' when under load. Is cpufreqd and cpufrequtils enough to gracefully shutdown the laptop, or is there some additional configuration required (fancy runlevels and what have you)? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise laptopmode may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :) BillK On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:06 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, It seems that my laptop battery is about to give up the ghost. It used to run all the way down to 2% before the machine shut down (well, it actually never shut down - just crashed). Now it is knocked out with as much as 10-11% left. Is there some setting I can configure to control this, or is it a matter of battery strength/health? PS. When I run /etc/init.d/cpufreqd I get: Apr 16 16:33:47 lappy cpufreqd: cpufreqd_set_profile : Couldn't set profile Performance Low set for cpu0 What's missing there? I'm not an expert and this is just a guess. If the battery/computer has some time remaining calculation that it uses, 10% power remaining now might give the same amount of usable time as 2% used to, if the battery is discharging faster than before.
Re: [gentoo-user] Battery knock out
On Friday 17 April 2009, W.Kenworthy wrote: If using gnome look for gnome-power-manager (it sucks so i usually kill it), otherwise laptopmode may be installed (configurable shutdown levels I think). Can also be a bios setting on some laptops - on my old dell it was independent to the OS. I actually run a perl daemon to do it - seems more reliable :) Thanks Bill, it seems that the BIOS does not contain any such setting. I am using Fluxbox which does not have all this functionality of Gnome/KDE. With laptopmode, do you mean: app-laptop/laptop-mode-tools? -- Regards, Mick
